Autobiographical Memory Development: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

✍ Scribed by Sami Gülgöz (editor), Basak Sahin-Acar (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Series: Current Issues in Memory
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Autobiographical memory is constituted from the integration of several memory skills, as well as the ability to narrate. This all helps in understanding our relation to self, family contexts, culture, brain development, and traumatic experiences. The present volume discusses contemporary approaches to childhood memories and examines cutting-edge research on the development of autobiographical memory.

The chapters in this book written by a group of leading authors, each make a unique contribution by describing a specific developmental domain. In providing a multinational and multicultural perspective on autobiographical memory development―and by covering a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this state-of-the-book is essential reading on the autobiographical memory system for memory researchers and graduate students. It is also of interest to scholars and students working more broadly in the fields of cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, and to academics who are conducting interdisciplinary research on neuroscience, family relationships, narrative methods, culture, and oral history.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction
References
Chapter 1: The emergence of autobiographical consciousness and the construction of an autobiographical self
Autobiographical memory, narrative, and language
The emergence of subjective perspective
The creation of the landscape of consciousness
The continuing role of social reminiscing
The autobiographical self
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Socialization of early autobiographical memory
Socialization of early autobiographical memory
Early mnemonic skills
Early verbal recall
Elaborative reminiscing styles for talking about the past
Linking reminiscing and children’s developing autobiographical memory skills
Conversations during events
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 3: Brain bases of autobiographical memory in development
Brain bases of autobiographical memory in development
Constructing memory representations: brain bases
Structures and networks
Developmental course
Evidence for relations between brain and behavior
Adults
In development
Mapping differences in neural activations to differences in behavior
Differential access to autobiographical memories
Elaboration of autobiographical memories
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Is the eye the mirror of the soul? Exploring autobiographical memory development by means of looking-time measures
Using looking-time measures to qualify autobiographical memories
Looking-time measures as means to examine dynamic event sequences
Using looking-time measures to explore event segmentation in infants
Looking-time measures may be relatively unaffected by age
A summary and a look ahead
Note
References
Chapter 5: Narrative methods in autobiographical memory
Cumulative, instance-based coding: zooming in
The narrative as unit of analysis: zooming out
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Developing a view of autobiographical memories and self-construal as socially, culturally and historically constructed: a theoretical and empirical approach
Introduction: autobiographical memory, self, and narrative
Autobiographical memory and self in cultural context: a critical view
Sociocultural factors, autobiographical memory, and self-construal
Future directions for the study of self and autobiographical memory
References
Chapter 7: Content and consistency of earliest memories
Content consistency of earliest memories over time
Sources of consistency and variability in content
Dating consistency of earliest memories over time
Sources of consistency and variability in dating
Factors influencing the age at earliest memories
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Autobiographical memory development and self-construals within and across cultures
Mother–child reminiscing within and across cultures
Conceptualizing self-construals
Implications of self-construals for memory and reminiscing
Within-culture variations and ecological validity
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Remembering earliest childhood memories
Earliest memories of adults
Age of first memories
Some factors affecting age of first memories in adults and older adolescents
Earliest memories of children
Cross-sectional research
Longitudinal research
Misdating of early memories
Theoretical considerations
A multiplicity of theories
The fluidity of one’s “earliest” memory
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: How did you feel back then? Emotional memory conversations among mother–father–child triads
Early autobiographical memory conversations: the effect of family context
Gender differences in emotionally charged memory conversations
Method
Results
Discussion
Note
References
Chapter 11: Adults' memories of childhood: the beginning of the life story
Adults’ memories of childhood: the beginning of the life story
Remembering me as a kid: the beginning of the life story
Childhood amnesia
Characteristics and content of remembered childhood events
Memory characteristics
Memory content
Why do people remember childhood events?
Adaptive psychosocial functions of childhood memories
Summary
References
Chapter 12: The development of children's autobiographical memory for learning episodes
Episodic memory and academic performance
Young children’s recollection of learning episodes
Parent-child conversations about academic experiences
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: PTSD in youth from a developmental perspective
Introduction
PTSD as a memory disorder
Empirical evidence
Sexual violence
Physical assaults
Why is youth a risk factor for PTSD?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 14: Final discussion and looking forward
Language and narrative
Social context
Culture
Remembering vs. dating of earliest memories
Methodology
Metacognition
Future thinking
Conclusion
References
Index