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An autobiographical memory is a personal representation of general or specific events and personal facts. Autobiographical memory also refers to memory of a person’s history. An individual does not remember exactly everything that has happened in one’s past. Memory is constructive, where previous experience affects how we remember events and what we end up recalling from memory. Autobiographical memory is constructive and reconstructed as an evolving process of past history. A person’s autobiographical memory is fairly reliable; although, the reliability of autobiographical memories is questionable because of memory distortions. Autobiographical memories can differ for special periods of life. People recall few personal events from the first years of their lives. The lost of these first events is called childhood or Infantile Amnesia . People tend to recall many personal events from adolescence and early adulthood. This effect is called the Reminiscence Bump . Finally, people recall many personal events from the last few years. This is called the Recency Effect . For adolescents and young adults the reminiscence bump and the recency effect coincide. TYPES
::"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 O.J. Simpson Trial ?" ::"When you learned that Princess Diana had died?" 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. REFERENCES
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