Episodes recollected by an individual based on a combination of episodic and semantic memories.

Condell & Playdell-Pearce (2000)

Active Personal goals or self images organised into goal hierarchies.  Similar to working memory (Baddely 1986, 2000).  Acts as control process, controlling access to the autobiographical knowledge base

Childhood amnesia

The reminiscence bump

Period of Recency

Conway & Playdell-Pearce (2000) - Goals of infant and young child so different, so disjunct from those of the adult that the adult self is unable to access those memories.

Freud (1899) - Working self of infancy less able to control emotional experience.  If recalled in adulthood could destabilise adult working self.

Increase in recall of memories from 10 - 30 years of age

Conway & Rubin (1993), Rubin (2002) - One of the most 'reliable' empirical observations in cognitive psychology.

Singer & Salovey (1993) - Self defining experiences

General events - Conway & Playdell-Pearce (2000) - contain knowledge about locations, other activities, feelings and goals common to an event.  Predominantly takes the form of visual images (Conway, 1996)

Lifetime periods

Goal attainment (Beike and Landoll, 2000)

Life story (Bluck and Habermas, 2000) - consists of several life story schema.

Schema - memory structure of an event where common parts are fixed

Partonomic knowledge structures

Tulving (1972) - Episodic were of specific events that occured at unique times.  semantic was abstract, not linked to any plice, time or learning episode.

Episodic must contain semantic.

Conway (2001) episodic very largely sensory-perceptual do not endure in memory unless they become linked to more permanent autobiographical  memory knowledge structures.

Sense or experience of the self in the past and is induced by images, feelings and other memory details that come to mind during remembering.

Signals that it is in fact a memory rather than fantasy.

Singer and Salovey (1993) - Memories associated with feelings of happpiness and pride were strongly linked with goal attainment and the smooth running of personal plans.

Self-defining memories - contain critical knowledge of progress on the attainment of long term goals.

Can be intentionally constructed or may come to mind without the formation of any specific intention to recall a memory

Generative retrieval - Remembering is intentional

Direct retrieval - cue causes a pattern of activation in autobiographical knowledge. e.g PTSD.

Both types of retrieval occure when people recall specific autobiographical memories to a range of cue words naming common activities, locations and emotions (Hague and Conway, 2001)

Autobiographical memory in distress

PTSD

Traumatic Event

Response at the time of trauma

Subsequent psychological symptoms

The nature of intrusive trauma memories

Re-experienceing symptoms including instrusive memories

Avoidance symptoms

Amnesia as avoidance

Hyperarousal symptoms