PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Memory Consolidation
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Memory for specific events is an example of the episodic memory, and it contains a great deal of the perceptual and contextual details. Because you have to put those specific events under a general theme. Life time: going to cover several of those events. Tell me everything that you can remember from that event. Quantifies personal episodic autobiography and personal semantic autobiographical ry. Uses personal narratives to assess bias episodic or semantic autobiographical info. Initially the hippocampus needed for the memory consolidation, and very important. When a memory is new, it is not in the cortex. However, the older memory are in the cortex, and thus people remembers their childhood memory. Childhood memory is worse than other times, this is not supporting the view that the older memory are consolidated. Hippocampus is always necessary, regardless of the age and the. It does not change the fact that old or new. This is a high gist of the memory.
