Abstract
This chapter describes two empirical studies of autobiographical memory that focused on the personal memory component of autobiographical memory. These experiments investigated the characteristics of randomly sampled events and of events that subjects selected to be memorable. The autobiographical memory data in these experiments were obtained from naive subjects, not from the experimenter. Both experiments were designed so that it would be possible to study memory for thoughts independently from memory for actions. The second experiment was designed to study cued recall of verifiable autobiographical memories, and in this experiment systematic reports were obtained of the subjects' phenomenal experiences during the recall process.
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Autobiographical memoryRecallPsychologyCognitive psychologyCued recallEpisodic memoryReconstructive memoryMemory errorsRetrieval-induced forgettingExplicit memoryFree recallCognitionNeuroscience
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- 21-90
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William F. Brewer
(1988).
Memory for randomly sampled autobiographical events.
Cambridge University Press eBooks
, 21-90.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511664014.004
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- 10.1017/cbo9780511664014.004