Autobiographical Stories |
Working Definition:
Autobiographical stories are the narratives we tell in the first person about the events of our lives as we remember them. Often the stories are told in part from time to time as anecdotes.
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Comments:
Autobiographical stories are based on real-world memories of personal events. (Ashcraft, Fundamentals of Cognition 227ff)
Aronson notes in some detail how inaccurate autobiographical memories are as well as “recovered memories” (memories of traumatic events that have been repressed). In addition, there are many instances of “false memories” in which person invent their past. (Aronson, Social Psychology, et. al., 1999, 177-79).
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Tulving on autobiographical memory
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