PSYCO258 Chapter 8: James Farley - Chapter 8
19 Mar 2016
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Done chapter 8: everyday memory and memory errors. No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Autobiographical memory: what has happened in my life. Autobiographical memories are multidimensional because they consist of spatial, emotional, and sensory components. Patients who lose their ability to recognize or visualize objects also experience a loss of autobiographical memory. Events that become significant parts of a person"s life tend to be remembered well, with transition points being particularly memorable. Reminiscence bump: the empirical finding that people over 40 years old have enhanced memory for events from adolescence and early adulthood, compared to other periods of their lives. Self-image hypothesis: the idea that memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person"s self-image or life identity is being formed. When participants are asked to make "i am" statements, the average age they assigned to the origin of these statements was 25.
