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Autobiographical Memory (Autobiographical memory (Kinds of memories…

- - - - subjects attribute life difficulties to blocked memory
        
        may be prone to suggestions
      - subjects are unexpectedly reminded of events
        
        sudden recall of event by retrieval cues
    - - weird, confusing, uncomfortable
    - - sudden presence of reminders
      - cognitive avoidance of memory stops
- - - - individual memory about experiences
    - - how things work
  - - - very vivid memories
      - very clear, emotional , surprising & important
      - as prone to error as other memories
    - - causes
        
        childhood/infantile amnesia
        
        Sleep deprivation/drugs/injuries
        
        stress
      - Repression
        
        Controversial: Can be repressed, but not forgotten, unconscious
      - usually lasting memories
    - - Hierachy
        
        Lifetime memories
        
        General event memories
        
        Event specific memories
      - Types of retrieval
        
        generative retrieval
        
        conscious retrieval
        
        passive retrieval
        
        retrieval caused by cues
- - - - story told out of proportion -> teller later believes it anyways
    - - decay of memories over time
    - - new and old memories interfere with other memories
    - - parts are missing, memory is there but cannot be found
    - - people construct memories and integrate falkse memories
      - unaware of own mistake
  - - - information from one context gets transplanted into another
    - - information intrues an event that did not really happen then
    - - writing down main word of category even when not given in a list
  - - - can be given my credible people (source monitoring
      - must be realistic (reality monitoring)
      - people can forget where the information came from (source miosattribution
      - are sometimes included in real memories -> Misinformation effect
- - - - caused by: neocortex, hippocampus and medio-temporal lobes
      - failure to encode new memories
    - - system consolidation
      - failing to remember the past
      - due to problems in hippocampus, medio-temporal lobe, subcortical & cortical brain regions
      - Ribots law
        
        early memories are remembered better
      - hippocampal consolidation
        
        fails in people with reterograde amnesia
    - - interaction of reterograde and anterograde amnesia
    - - Korsakoff Syndrome
        
        anterograde amnesia caused by alcohol
      - Confabulation
        
        making up new stories caused by damage to the frontal lobe
      - Post-traumatic amnesia