Abstract The life script account of the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memories suggests that cultural expectations about nature and timing transitional events lead to bump. empirical evidence for scripts is limited. We tested generality by looking at effects culture, gender cohorts. Turkish participants were asked (a) list seven most important a newborn or an elderly would experience during his/her lifetime (b) estimate prevalence, importance, age‐at‐event emotional valence each...

The present study looks at the effects of familiarity among group members on collaborative inhibition, false memory creation, and social contagion. Friend, nonfriend (adhoc) nominal three-person groups studied categorized wordlists, followed by free recall recognition tests, including remember/know judgments. Friend were asked to engage in recall, while tested individually. Results showed that inhibition was evident friend groups. However, these detrimental collaboration disappeared during...

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate cultural life scripts across three age groups. Adolescents, young adults, and older adults were asked list seven most important events that a typical newborn would experience in lifetime. They also provided estimates emotional valence for script they listed. Results showed there substantial overlap listed by adolescent adult more similar each other than script. Older differed from two groups (a) typical, (b) stronger bump positive...

Abstract We tested Turkish participants' ( n =483) autobiographical and event memory for the events of September 11, 2001 3 days, 6 months, 1 year after event. The amount detail participants reported was very high one year. accuracy moderate at declined sharply by months. consistency higher than that all time lags; however, there no interaction between lag type. data also provided partial support Pezdek's (2003) conceptualization degree involvement has different effects on memory. Copyright...

The authors investigated the effect of aging on flashbulb (FB) memories. In 1996, elderly Turks recalled how they had heard about 2 remote events--the death first president Turkey (in 1938) and another event involving a change in national borders country 1939)--and both younger adults recent 8th 1993). Seventy percent FB memories for 1938 death; critical variables formation were personal importance attached to rehearsal. Ninety 72% 1993 only variable that differed between groups was

Although visual imagery is argued to be an essential component of autobiographical memory, there have been surprisingly few studies on memory processes in blind individuals, who had no or limited input. The purpose the present study was investigate how blindness affects retrieval and phenomenology memories. We asked 48 congenital/early sighted participants recall memories response six cue words, fill out Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire measuring a number variables including imagery,...

This study investigated episodic memory and metamemory for verbs nouns in patients who have cognitive impairments associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). PD healthy control participants were asked to recall word pairs provide feeling-of-knowing (FOK) judgments the items they unable recall. was followed by a 4-alternative recognition test. impaired both recognition, compared controls. In terms of metamemory, less confident their ability recognize unrecalled future Most important, accuracy...

37 college students answered questions regarding the circumstances in which they first heard about two events that took place approximately years prior: beginning of Operation Desert Storm and news their acceptance to college. The number details recalled own for both was very high not different events. However, reported having stronger emotional reactions (as measured by a 5-point rating scale) Only rated intensity reaction related recalled. Sex differences were found frequency rehearsal but recall.

Summary Recall of canonical categories has been widely used to measure flashbulb memory performance. However, these are based on a single study and have inconsistently in the literature making comparisons across studies potentially problematic. The purpose present was provide further data toward determining generality categories. We asked 135 participants open‐ended narratives how they first learned about three public events, one which also personal event for some participants. Results...

AbstractMetamemory processes and executive control may be related, given that both are frontally mediated. However, previous behavioural research has been limited in identifying common driving this somewhat weak relationship partly because they mostly relied upon global measures composite scores of function (EF). The present study investigated the between specific EFs (task shifting, interference resolution), working memory capacity feeling-of-knowing (FOK) confidence judgements (CONF) an...

The revelation effect is the tendency to give higher proportions of positive responses recognition test items that are distorted. Two plausible explanations this response bias were tested. first 3 experiments showed sense familiarity leading not created because extra time or effort spent on distorted items. magnitude was neither correlated with taken reveal nor influenced by subjects' efforts in revealing such next 4 priming target words during act

Abstract Anecdotal evidence suggests that twins may dispute ownership of autobiographical experiences. We investigated the frequency and characteristics such disputed memories in comparison to with undisputed ownership. In present study, monozygotic (MZ), dizygotic (DZ), siblings were asked remember non‐disputed memories. They also dated each memory provided a rating on following variables: level imagery, detail, rehearsal, importance. Results showed more common among MZ than DZ siblings....

Abstract This study investigates how children lexicalize motion events in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates with manner expressed the main verb path non-verbal element, whereas Turkish verb-framed expresses subordinated verb. We asked three questions: (1) Does early L2 acquisition an L1 dominant society affect event lexicalization L1? (2) Is effect of on subject to change due decline exposure? (3) Do vs....

The purpose of the present study was to address effects urban vs. rural upbringing on earliest autobiographical memories. We asked children (aged 10–13) brought up in an a setting report their Earliest memories from areas were year later than those areas. Moreover, more likely contain social interactions and tended be less detailed compared groups, however, not different specificity, autonomous orientation, or emotion. Results are discussed context cultural developmental approach.