PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Sampling Bias, Brain Damage, Neuroimaging
17 Dec 2016
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Mem for specific events and self related info. Diaries: problem: you don"t know what was initially experienced. Linton kept diary over 5 years randomly picked index card to see if she could remember day and the order in which the events occurred. Probe method: cued recall, prominent feature of probed am is their distribution across the lifespan. Important period within lefe narritivereminiscence bump tendency in ppl over 40 to show a high rate of recollecting personal experiences from their late teens early 20s. Found a tendency for smells to evoke mem that are rated by their participants as earlier than visually or verbally cued events. Conway defines am as a system that retains knowledge concerning the experienced self, the me . Recollective experiences occur when autobiographical knowledge, our personal semantic mem, retains access to associated episodic mem. In sum, the working self is a way of encoding info abt what is, what has been, and what can be.
