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Narrative and Autobiographical <strong>Memory</strong><br />

• Do laboratory studies of memory apply to real life<br />

memory for stories and personal events?<br />

– Bartlett (1932) thought memory is often reconstructed based on<br />

schemata (constructive view of LTM).<br />

• serial reproduction: recall the same story on more than once<br />

– “War of the Ghosts” became more distorted with each reproduction<br />

– Autobiographical memory for ordinary events<br />

• Marjorie Linton (1975, 1982) spent six years recording the daily<br />

events in her life in a systematic fashion

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