NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Ulric Neisser's Contribution to the Study of Autobiographical Memory Accuracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sotgiu, Igor – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Ulric Neisser was the initiator of the contemporary psychology of autobiographical memory, as well as the founder of the ecological approach to human cognition. The present article reviews his empirical and theoretical contributions to an issue which is at the heart of the contemporary debate on autobiographical memory: that is, autobiographical…
Descriptors: Memory, Accuracy, Psychology, Schemata (Cognition)
The Acquisition of the Cultural Life Script: Children Have a Less Normative and Less Sequential Concept of the Life Course than Adults
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Saraiva, Pedro; Silva, Sara; Habermas, Tilmann; Henriques, Margarida R. – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Autobiographical remembering develops in childhood. A late-developing cognitive tool is the cultural life script. The present study aimed at exploring the beginnings of its acquisition and at replicating its acquisition in early adolescence in a Southern-European culture. Study 1 established the Portuguese normative adult cultural life script,…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Autobiographies, Memory, Experience
Autobiographical Writing, Autobiographical Narration: Memories of a "Child of the Occupation" in the Mirror of Two Genres
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kleinau, Elke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The article focuses on two different versions of the childhood and life history of a female "child of a Russian" who grew up in the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic (GDR). Besides a biographical-narrative interview, there is also a published text on the author's childhood memories. The article concentrates…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Children, Memory
On Telling the Whole Story: Facts and Interpretations in Autobiographical Memory Narratives from Childhood through Midadolescence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pasupathi, Monisha; Wainryb, Cecilia – Developmental Psychology, 2010
This article examines age differences from childhood through middle adolescence in the extent to which children include factual and interpretive information in constructing autobiographical memory narratives. Factual information is defined as observable or perceptible information available to all individuals who experience a given event, while…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Adolescents, Autobiographies
Inviolable Laws, Impossible to Keep: Orwell on Education, Suffering, and the Loss of Childhood
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stillwaggon, James – Educational Theory, 2010
Scholars from multiple disciplines have commented on the divided nature of childhood as a historical construction: a period of life to be valued in itself as well as a means to adulthood. In this essay, James Stillwaggon considers George Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys," an autobiographical account of his childhood education, as a site of…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Adults, Memory
When Autobiographical Memory Begins
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Howe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L.; Edison, Shannon C. – Developmental Review, 2003
The authors review competing theories concerning the emergence and early development of autobiographical memory. It is argued that the differences between these accounts, although important, may be more apparent than real. The crux of these disagreements lies not in "what" processes are important, but rather, the role these different processes…
Descriptors: Memory, Autobiographies, Cognitive Processes, Recall (Psychology)