Exam 7: Autobiographical Memory

McIsaac and Eich (2004) found that when patients suffering from PTSD retrieved memories as field memories, their emotional response was more negative and more intense.When they asked participants to recall them as observer memories,

Berntsen and Rubin (2008) asked participants to record involuntary memories in a memory diary.In particular, participants were asked to record involuntary memories that referred to a serious (or traumatic) event in their lives.

An example of an "extended" event in Conway's theory would be the memory of the long car trip you took in the hills of West Virginia.

In Conway's theory of autobiographical memory, general events refer to:

Thomsen and Berntsen (2008) found that, among Danish elders, the bump was particularly noticeable for the memory of events that were consistent with cultural life scripts, such as first jobs, dating, and leaving home.

Childhood amnesia refers to:

Berntsen, Staugaard, and Sorensen (in press) asked participants to engage in sound-location task which involved determining if two sounds were being played to the same ear or one to each ear.They found that:

An example of a lifetime period is:

The special mechanism of flashbulb memory formation suggests that:

One advantage of doing ______ memory diary studies is that because the subject is also the researcher, long retention (i.e., several years) intervals can be employed.

The term autobiographical memory refers to our semantic memory for our life's narrative.

By which age is childhood amnesia usually no longer seen?

John, a 55-year-old, is given a cue word and asked to come up with the first memory she can come up with.John is likely to demonstrate anterograde amnesia.

Conway's model of autobiographical memory concerns how we:

The term autobiographical memory refers to:

An example of an "______" event in Conway's theory was the memory of the horse-back riding trip you took in the hills of Pennsylvania.

Jack et al. (2012) tracked down the children who had participated in the "magic shrinking machine" experiment six years later when the children varied from age 8 to age 10.They found that:

Explain the "reminiscence bump."

Talarico and Rubin (2007), for example, compared memories of their personal whereabouts when they heard the news of 9/11 and an ordinary event around the same time.They found that:

Roxanne cannot recall any details from the first few years of life.This pattern is called encoding binaurality.