PSYC 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reminiscence Bump, Autobiographical Memory, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
17 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Memory for specific experiences from our life, which can include both episodic and semantic components. Greenberg and rubin (2003: patients who cannot recognize objects also experience loss of autobiographical memory, visual experience plays a role in forming and retrieving am. Cabeza (2004: comparing brain activation caused by autobiographical memory and laboratory memory, reminiscence bump. Participants over the age of 40 asked to recall events in their lives. Memory is high for recent events and for events that occurred in adolescence and early adulthood (between 10 and 30 years of age) Self-image hypothesis: memory is enhanced for events that occur as a perso(cid:374)"s self-image or life identity is being formed: people assume identities during adolescence and young adulthood; many transitions occur between ages 10 and 30. Cognitive hypothesis: encoding is better during periods of rapid change that are followed by stability: evidence from those who emigrated to the us after young adulthood indicates reminiscence bump is shifted.
