What is autobiographical memory
Memory for one’s own experiences
What does autobiographical memory include
Specific life events and self-related information
What does it mean that autobiographical memory is multidimensional
There are many components to memory
What are the components to autobiographical memory
Spatial, emotional, sensory
What are the components of the sensory component of memory
Visual, auditory, smell, taste, and touch
What does it mean that autobiographical memory is uneven
Certain events are remembered better than others
What are the most remembered events in a person’s life
Significant events, transition points, highly emotional events
What is a personal episode a combination of
Episodic and semantic
What does an autobiographical memory contain
Both facts about one’s life and contextual episodic memories
The reminiscence bump is found in people what age
Forty years and older
Bump events are perceived as what
Influential for the individual’s development
What does the biological/maturational hypothesis say about why the reminiscence bump occurs
Time of peak mental activity, cognitive ability improvement from childhood to early adulthood, information is consolidated quicker and stronger
What does the self imagine hypothesis say about why the reminiscence bump occurs
Time when one’s “life narrative” tends to develop and development of one’s self image and identity
What does the cognitive hypothesis say about why the reminiscence bump occurs
Time when a lot of “first” distinctive events occurred, a lot of events occurred rapidly, and encoding is better during periods of rapid change that are followed by stability
What does cultural script hypothesis say about why the reminiscence bump occurs
A personal life story and culturally expected events occuring in the lifespan
What is a script
Conception of sequence of typical actions
What events are more easily and vividly remembered
Emotional events
Emotion does what with memory
Improve memory and becomes greater with time
What may emotion improve
Consolidation
What is the amygdala
Brain structure involved in processing emotion
What is flashbulb memory
Memory for some unique events remembered in a special way
What does it mean to say memory is constructive
Memory is what actually happens as well as a person’s knowledge, experiences, and expectations
What is source monitoring error
Source misattribuation
What is source monitoring
Determining from where one first herd information
