PSYC 3260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cognitive Interview, Episodic Memory, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
29 Aug 2014
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Autobiographical memory (am: recollected events that belong to a person"s past, mental time travel, multidimensional. Spatial, emotional, and sensory components: sensory component. Patients who cannot recognize objects also experience loss of autobiographical memory. Visual experience plays a role in forming and retrieving am: cabeza and coworkers (2004) Comparing brain activation caused by autobiographical memory and laboratory memory. Participants viewed: photographs they took (a-photos, photographs taken by someone else, both types of photos activated brain structures associated with. Processing scenes: a-photos also activated brain structures associated with. Mental time travel memory: very rich memories. Caption: explanations for the reminiscence bump: self-image hypothesis. Memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person"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.
