Question

what did you mean by memories and autobiographies​

Answer 1

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Autobiographical memory refers to memory for one’s personal history (Robinson, 1976). Examples might include memories for experiences that occurred in childhood, the first time learning to drive a car, or even one’s Social Security number or home address. Brewer (1986) divided autobiographical memories into categories of personal memories, autobiographical facts, and generic personal memories. Personal memories are memories for specific events in one’s life that are accompanied by imagery. As such, personal autobiographical memories are thought by some to be the real-world analog to episodic memories as studied in the lab, because they are the episodes of one’s life as dated in space and time. On the other hand, autobiographical facts are facts about the person that are devoid of personally experienced temporal or spatial context information. For example, you know when and where you were born, but you cannot remember the event. Finally, generic personal memory refers to more abstract knowledge about oneself (what you are like) or to acquired procedural knowledge such as knowledge of how to ride a bicycle, ski, or play a musical instrument. Despite the conceptual overlap across classification schemes, a unique feature of autobiographical memory is that it must directly relate to oneself or one’s sense of personal history.

Answer 2

Autobiographical memory is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.