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Autobiographical memory. Autobiographical memory (AM) [1] is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) [2] and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world ...
Psychology. Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is an inability to retrieve specific memories from one's autobiographical memory. [1] Instead, general memories are recalled, such as repeated events or events occurring over broad periods. For example, when asked to recall a happy event, a person who exhibits OGM may say, "when I was on ...
Ira Hyman is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.His research is focused on human memory including traumatic memories, false childhood memories, autobiographical memory, memory in social context, and memory for phobia onset. [1]
Memory errors may include remembering events that never occurred, or remembering them differently from the way they actually happened. [1] These errors or gaps can occur due to a number of different reasons, including the emotional involvement in the situation, expectations and environmental changes. As the retention interval between encoding ...
Can include autobiographical and non-personal information, such as historical facts, fairy-tales, or other aspects of semantic memory. The account can be fantastic or coherent. Both the premise and the details of the account can be false. The account is usually drawn from the patient's memory of actual experiences, including past and current ...
Psychology, psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology. Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. It is extraordinarily rare, with fewer than 100 people in the ...
A flashbulb memory is a vivid, long-lasting memory about a surprising or shocking event. [1][2] The term "flashbulb memory" suggests the surprise, indiscriminate illumination, detail, and brevity of a photograph; however, flashbulb memories are only somewhat indiscriminate and are far from complete. [2] Evidence has shown that although people ...
Episodic memory. Episodic memory is the memory of everyday events (such as times, location geography, associated emotions, and other contextual information) that can be explicitly stated or conjured. It is the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at particular times and places; for example, the party on one's 7th birthday. [1]