Autobiographical Memories

• Episodic Memory

  • memories of distinct personal events; easier to forget
• Sematic Memories

  • organised factual knowledge about outside world
• Autobiographical Memory

  • memory system of episodes of person's life based on a mixture of episodic and sematic memory. Explicit memory
• Autobiographical Memory - links past events together into personal history that related to past, present and future, supporting our sense of self
• Reconstruction

  • combining stored info with other info to form a more coherent, complete and accurate memory