Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Historical, theoretical, and methodological contexts for the study of autobiographical memory
- Part III The general organization of autobiographical memory
- Part IV The temporal organization of autobiographical memory
- Part V Temporal distributions of autobiographical memories
- Part VI Failures of autobiographical memory
- Author index
- Subject index
Part VI - Failures of autobiographical memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Historical, theoretical, and methodological contexts for the study of autobiographical memory
- Part III The general organization of autobiographical memory
- Part IV The temporal organization of autobiographical memory
- Part V Temporal distributions of autobiographical memories
- Part VI Failures of autobiographical memory
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Children and, as Baddeley and Wilson (Chap. 13), point out, psychologists often study things by seeing how they break. In this section, clinically diagnosed deficits in autobiographical memory are used to support and challenge existing theories of the memory of unimpaired adults. By describing in detail the behavior of a small number of individuals, issues of veridicality, the functional role of autobiographical memory, and the theoretical status of the concept of autobiographical memory are raised in a vivid manner.
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- Autobiographical Memory , pp. 223 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986