PSY 654 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gender Role, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Hot Air Balloon
15 Jan 2016
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A subcortical structure that is involved in processing emotional aspects of experience, including memory for emotional events. Memory for dated events in a person"s life. Autobiographical memory is usually considered to a type of episodic memory, but has also been de ned as including personal semantic memories. An explanation for the reminiscence bump, which states that memories are better for adolescence and early adulthood because encoding is better during periods of rapid change that are followed by stability. The idea that what people report as memories are constructed based on what actually happened plus additional factors, such as expectations, other knowledge, and other life experiences. This has been associated with errors in source monitoring. Life events that commonly occur in a particular culture. The idea that events in a person"s life story become easier to recall when they t the cultural life script for that person"s culture.
