Overview Flashcards
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Describe the ‘working self’?
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A cognitive structure. Involves conceptions about self and current set of active goals (goal hierarchy). The working self manages the construction and retrieval of AMs.
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What are autobiographical memories?
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They are considered to be the database of the self. They give continuity to experience and help us to integrate with others. They offer a personal historical context of who we are now.