What did you have for breakfast?

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• What did you have for breakfast?
• Whats in porridge?
• How do you make a cup of tea?

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Todays session
You are learning about... You are learning to...
Types of memory Autobiographical memory Draw conclusions from empirical evidence Use evidence to evaluate psychological theories
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Types of Memory

• Tulving (1972)
• Semantic memory
• store of general factual knowledge about the
  world
• Episodic memory
• store of past experiences (could be from another
  source)
• Cohen Squire (1980)
• Declarative memory
• Knowing what
• Procedural memory
• Knowing how

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Types of memory

• How could we investigate the idea that there are
  actually different types of memory?

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Evidence for different types of memory

• Tulving (1989)
• Corkin (1968)
• Heindel et al (1988)

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Autobiographical memory

• What might be meant by autobiographical memory?
• Memory for information relating to the self
• Facts about the self
• Memory of past experiences
• Specific e.g. Your twelfth birthday
• Generic e.g. What your school day was like

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What do people remember?
Rubin et al (1986)
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Rubin et al (1986)

• Why do people have a reminiscence bump?
• Frequent rehearsal
• Greater distinctiveness (more firsts)
• Why do people have infantile amnesia?
• Immature memory systems in brain
• Lack of language to structure memories
• Repression (Freud)

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Evidence

• Studies of autobiographical memory
• Rubin et al (1986)
• Bahrick et al (1975)
• Linton (1986)
• Waagenar (1986)
• What conclusions can be drawn from these studies?
• What problems are there with the validity of
  these studies?