Chapter 11

Question 1

What is a reminiscence bump?

Answer 1

A tendency in participants to show a high rate of recollecting personal experiences from their late teens and early twenties.

Question 2

What accounts for the way in which autobiographical knowledge is accumulated and used?

Answer 2

The working self.

Question 3

What is autonoetic consciousness?

Answer 3

The capacity to reflect on our own thoughts.

Question 4

What ability is essential in deciding whether a recollection is an accurate record of our past?

Answer 4

autonoetic consciousness

Question 5

What term refers to the consistent tendency for negative memories, over time, to lose affective intensity at a higher rate than positive memories?

Answer 5

Fading affect bias.

Question 6

A person has an abrupt loss of autobiographical memories, personal identity, and wanders around. But it resolves soon after. What is this?

Answer 6

A fugue state.

Question 7

A person starts with fugue, recovers, but has persisting amnesia for their life history. What is this?

Answer 7

Fugue to FRA.

Question 8

A person has an abrupt loss of autobiographical memories that persists. But, no fugue state. What do they have?

Answer 8

FRA.

Question 9

This person did not lose their sense of identity and did not wander. But they can’t remember a specific event. What is this?

Answer 9

Gaps in memory.

Question 10

What is reverse temporal gradient?

Answer 10

The tendency, in focal retrograde amnesia, for the oldest autobiographical memories to be forgotten more than recent ones.