1997
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199706)11:3<187::aid-acp446>3.0.co;2-k
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Autobiographical Misremembering: John Dean is not Alone

Abstract: Survey respondents were asked to provide knowledge responses to public events and names that occurred as long ago as the 1930s and as recently as the 1980s. Respondents made errors that reflect the use of semantic and lexical memory systems, and reconstructive processes based on a semantic theme. Errors, as well as correct responses, are affected by whether the events originally occurred during the transition phase (early teens to mid‐twenties). Responses indicate that events that occur during the transition p… Show more

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“…Bahrick and his colleagues (Bahrick, 1983(Bahrick, , 1984Bahrick, Bahrick, & Wittlinger, 1975) have shown that neutral facts, such as the names of fellow college students, college streets, or college-learned Spanish vocabulary, are steadily forgotten for six years and then, if still retained, are preserved for decades to come. Along the same lines, Belli, Schuman, and Jackson (1997) found good retention after decades for newsworthy events such as the Tet Offensive, at least for participants for whom the event "defined" their generation. Neither of these studies examined whether respondents remembered the circumstances in which they learned of the event, making their relevance to the topic of flashbulb memories at best speculative.…”
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confidence: 79%
“…Bahrick and his colleagues (Bahrick, 1983(Bahrick, , 1984Bahrick, Bahrick, & Wittlinger, 1975) have shown that neutral facts, such as the names of fellow college students, college streets, or college-learned Spanish vocabulary, are steadily forgotten for six years and then, if still retained, are preserved for decades to come. Along the same lines, Belli, Schuman, and Jackson (1997) found good retention after decades for newsworthy events such as the Tet Offensive, at least for participants for whom the event "defined" their generation. Neither of these studies examined whether respondents remembered the circumstances in which they learned of the event, making their relevance to the topic of flashbulb memories at best speculative.…”
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“…word-cued memories was from when they were 10 to 30 years old, but their bump for important memories was from age 20 to 30. A bump has also been found in some studies addressing factual information acquired at different periods of life, such as knowledge of historical, political, and cultural events (Belli, Schuman, & Jackson, 1997;Rubin et al, 1998;Schuman & Rieger, 1992). This article is mainly concerned with the bump.…”
Section: Modifications and Post Hoc Explanationsmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…First, people develop their generational identity in early adulthood, which causes them to identify with public events that occur in that period (Holmes & Conway, 1999; Janssen, 2015; Mannheim, 1952). Second, people experience many public events for the first time during their reminiscence bump, which makes these events more salient and, therefore, remembered better (Belli, Schuman, & Jackson, 1997; Fitzgerald, 1988; Janssen, 2015). Third, people have culturally-shared expectations that important public events should occur during a person’s early adulthood (youth bias), which may make people remember events that happen in this period better, or more likely to search this period when prompted for an important public event (Koppel & Berntsen, 2014).…”
Section: Nationally Relevant Memoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%