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An autobiographical memory is a personal representation of general or specific events and personal facts.

Contents 1 Types 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

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• Specific Events

• When one first stepped foot in the ocean. On a family trip to California.

• General Events

• What it is like stepping into the ocean for oneself generally. This is a memory of what a personal event is generally like. One might have based it on the memories of having stepped in the ocean, many times during the years one lived in California.

• Personal Facts

• "Who was the Prime Minister of Canada when I was born?"

• Flash Bulb Memories

• Flash bulb memories are critical Autobiographical Memories about a major event. Some flash bulb memories are shared within a social group and today, much of humanity.

"Where were you on 9/11?"

"The assassination of John Kennedy?"

"The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?"

"The Challenger explosion?"

"The verdict in the OJ Simpson trial?"

[edit] See also

Autobiographic memory is a major research area within cognitive science which is itself a movement in psychology. Understanding emotion and memory is important for predicting which autobiographical events will be remembered.

[edit] References

• Brown, R., & Kulik, J. (1977). Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5, 73-99.

• Conway, M. A., & Pleydell Pearce, C. W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self memory system. Psychological Review, 107, 261-288.

• Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., & Greenberg, D. L. (2003). Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories. Memory and Cognition, 31, 887-901.

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