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6. What is the self-memory-system?

  • Proposes a self-memory system comprising an autobiographical knowledge base and a ‘secondary self’
  • Proposes a self-memory system comprising an autobiographical knowledge base and a ‘identity of self’
  • Proposes a self-memory system comprising an autobiographical knowledge base and a ‘working self’
  • Proposes a self-memory system comprising an autobiographical knowledge base and a ‘independent self’

7. What was found to be necessary for long term recall in Lintons diary studies

  • Rehearsal
  • Diary entry

8. Is the development of the cognitive self linked to emergence of autobiographical memory?

  • Yes
  • No

9. What method is proposed as a solution to the difficulties in assessing autobiographical memory

  • Diary studies
  • Photo stimulation studies
  • Health app studies
  • ECG studies

10. Autobiographical memory provides a long-term context or setting for what?

  • Sensory memory
  • All of the above
  • Episodic memory
  • Semantic memory

11. According to the self-memory system knowledge base is hierarchical and layered from the very general to the very specific. What are the hierarchical layers?

  • 1. Lifetime Periods, 2. General Events, 3. Event specific Knowledge.
  • 1. Lifetime Periods, 2. Personal Events, 3. External Events
  • 1.Personal Events, 2. Local Events, 3. Global Events

12. How many events per day did Marigold Lintons diary study (1975) comprise of?

  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 5

13. Which of these psychologist have heavily researched autobiographical and episodic memory?

  • Conway
  • Maison
  • Freud
  • Jung

14. What is autobiographical memory?

  • The memory of personal life events
  • The memory of childhood events
  • The memory of family details
  • The memory of a loved ones life events

15. Who said that infantile amnesia related to repression?

  • Rubin
  • Freud
  • Conway
  • Bowlby

16. Selwood, Harris, Barnier and Sutton found that recalling autobiographical memories with others..

  • did not not influence the quality of memory narratives, increased vividness and reduced emotionality.
  • influenced the quality of memory narratives, increased vividness and reduced emotionality.
  • influenced the quality of memory narratives, decreased vividness and increased emotionality.

17. Linton found that when recalling autobiographical memories less than 2 years old, [blank] order of events was very important.

  • Temporal
  • Categorical
  • Emotional
  • Geographical

18. Reminiscence bump is when there is a peak in memories. But at what age is the peak?

  • 7 and 5
  • 10 and 30
  • 15 and 25
  • 20 and 35

19. Infantile Amnesia is when a person has almost no memories for the first how many years of life?

  • 3 yrs
  • 2 yrs
  • 5 yrs
  • 4 yrs

20. Linton found that what led to an event being more likely to be forgotten?

  • If the event had more people you knew attending it
  • If the event was a rarity
  • If the event resembled other events
  • If the event was longer in duration