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Binds the self to reality
Life story
Highly complex cognition
Disrupted by brain injury |
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Hierarchy of currently active goals
experiences encoded & constructed through this
Usually inhibits unwanted memories at innappropriate times
Major influence on accessibility of autobiographical knowledge/memory construction
Self is intimated in recall
Modulaates access to LTM and controlling what new info is rehearsed & integrated |
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0-5 can't remember much - early experiences v different so unalbe to be accessed or Freudian - too many intense emotions - unstabilise
10-30 years - rapid change - stability & self-defining experiences
Related & crucial to enduring sense of self |
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| Autobiographical remembering |
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| 3 aspects - episodic memories, autobiographical knowledge & images |
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| Autobiographical knowledge |
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General events
Lifetime periods |
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Bluck & Habermass 2000
set of themes describing whole life
Stored in schema |
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Memory structure - 2 parts
fixed e.g. Going to cinema - queueing, popcorn
Variable - who?, Whan?, What? |
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| way that a specific memory is part of a general event which is part of a lifetime period which is part of a life schema |
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Tulving
contains spatio-temporal info
contains specific events that occured at unique times |
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Tulving
Abstract conepts
Context free knowledge not linked to place, time or learning episode |
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| Criticisms of distinction between semantic & episodic |
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1 - episodic memories must contain semantic knowledge
2 - Schema 9episodic) contains semantic info sometimes e.g. breakfast - locations, time, actions, order
3- Autobiographical knowledge e.g. holiday - contains spatio-temporal info
Tulving - revised concept of episodic - memories, when recalled have feeling of experiencing the past - other memory types don't have this |
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linked to episodic
produces sense of self/experience in the past
signals that an event actually happened |
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Thematic Apperception Test
McAdams 1982
Assesses non-concious personality aspects - peak experiences
- strong intimacy or power motivations |
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Agentic & communion personalities
Agentic - emotional memories - mastery/humiliation
Communal - significant others, love, friends |
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Autobiographical memory
Intentional remembering & effortfully constructed
Knowledge evaluated against retrieval model generated by working self e.g. supermarket cue - parking, (general event) - busy car park - episodic |
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Faster than generative from autobiographical
Works when cue causes activation in Auto knowledge and specific memory recalled
Working self can inhibit this memory from entering awareness & disrputing other higher priority cognitions |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
1 - traumatic event
Response at time of trauma - threat of imminent danger falls outwith working selfs current plans so isn't easily processed
Symptoms - re-experiencing symptoms like it is actually happeneing now - intrusive memories, avoidance symptoms, amnesia as avoidance, hyperarousal symptoms
At least 1 month of symptoms
Image based and emotional |
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