PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Autobiographical Memory, Temporal Lobe, Psy

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2012
• Professor: Ron Chandler

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And what are positive and negative consequences of remembering the personal past: memory system consisting of episodes collected and recalled from an. Autobiographical memory individual"s life: taps into both episodic(personal experiences) and semantic(general knowledge) memory. Brain temporal lobe: processes auditory info, language, and autobiographical memory. Reminiscence: monitoring and coordination of most other brain the volitional or nonvolitional process of recollecting memories of one"s self. May involve the recall of particular or generic episodes that may or may not in the past have been previously forgotten. Accompanied by the sense that the remembered episodes are accurate accounts of the original experiences. May be helpful or unhelpful for the individual transitory dynamic data multifaceted system that includes details that may come and go. Cognitive and structural approach structuralism: scientific goal, uses introspection to identify basic elements or (cid:498)structures(cid:499) of experience. The structure of autobiographical memory retrieval structuralism lifetime periods (life chapters: extended memories that has more than one theme, ex.