PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Episodic Memory, Justin Trudeau, Eleanor Rosch
12 Dec 2017
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Memory for our life story - what we have personally experienced. Refers to memory for an individual"s life events and other knowledge about that specific individual"s life. It includes self knowledge such as information about individual goals, aspirations, etc. Includes information about specific events or episodes that we have experienced. Episodic (e. g. , memory for where you were and how you experienced 9/11) Semantic (e. g. , when and where you were born) Am memories often have episodic and semantic elements. Am constructive and integrative, often spanning multiple events. Conway views am as hierarchical (see figure) At the highest level of the hierarchy are themes or important life goals professional goals, relationship goals etc. Often organized into lifetime periods that may overlap (e. g. , time at high school, university); time i dated person 1, person 2 etc. These life narrative memories tend to be organized into narrative structures. Major components: event-specific memories, general events, and working self (conceptual self)
