Parallel associations and the structure of autobiographical knowledge.

Belli, Robert F.; Baghal, Tarek Al

doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.03.004

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“…Thus, some regions of the network should be densely interconnected (e.g., a work-related region; a home-life-related region). However, there should also be links between contemporaneous regions reflecting the inter-related aspects of our lives (Barsalou, 1988; Belli & Al Baghal, 2016; Bilgen & Belli, 2010).…”

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Transition theory: A minimalist perspective on the organization of autobiographical memory.

Brown

2016

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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Transition Theory (T 2 ) assumes that the content and organization of autobiographical memory mirror the structure of experience and reflect the operation of basic associative processes. Thus, this approach rests on an environmental analysis that emphasizes repetition, co-occurrence, change, and distinctiveness. In this article, I first provide an overview of a research project, the Living-in-History project, that has provided the impetus for this theory. Next, I identify several basic autobiographical constructs -event components, event representations, lifetime periods, transitions -and define them within the T 2 framework. I conclude by arguing that: (a) the formation of lifetime period is driven by association and by repeated exposure to frequently encountered, co-occurring event components; (b) period boundaries are transitions that bring about large-scale synchronized changes to the set of regularly encountered event components; and (c) these claims hold for individual-level transitions (e.g., relocation) and collective ones (e.g., war).

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Transition theory: A minimalist perspective on the organization of autobiographical memory.

Brown

2016

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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“…Although the timing of events that respondents provide in the TRHC may not be exactly as it occurred in real life, there is strong evidence from other settings and projects that the ordering is likely to be correct even if the exact timing is at best, an approximation [5,13,46]. And, it does appear that the TRHC encourages respondents to anchor past HIV testing on a number of socio-political and personal reference points, which methodological research using LHC has shown increases the accuracy of retrospective reports [54][55][56].…”

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Assessing the feasibility of a life history calendar to measure HIV risk and health in older South Africans

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Life history calendars capture patterns of behavior over time, uncovering transitions and trajectories. Despite the growing numbers of older persons living with HIV in southern Africa, little is known about how HIV testing and risk unfold in this population. Operationalizing a life course approach with the use of an innovative Testing and Risk History Calendar [TRHC], we collected pilot data on older South Africans' risk and HIV testing. We found older persons were able to provide (1) reference points to facilitate recall over a 10-year period, (2) specifics about HIV tests during that decade, and (3) details that contextualize the testing data, such as living arrangements, relationships, and health status. Interviewer debriefing sessions after each interview captured information on context and links across domains. On a larger scale, the TRHC has potential to reveal pathways between sexual behavior, HIV testing and risk perception, and health at older ages.

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“…LHC validation studies that compare agreement with another source of data have reliably produced retrospective reports of higher data quality in comparison to standard questionnaires among a wide range of measures including relationships, cohabitation, health status, disability, and labor histories (25,29,30). Better data quality in LHCs has been traced to the higher prevalence in the use of sequential (e.g., remembering one's earlier and later partners) and parallel (e.g., remembering one's health status during a relationship with a specific partner) cues (31)(32)(33). LHCs have led to important scientific inferences regarding the interrelationships among life course events, including how life course exposures impact later life health and well-being (34)(35)(36)(37)(38).…”

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Development of a Tablet Computer Application for HIV Testing and Risk History Calendar for Use With Older Africans

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Knight

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Front. Reprod. Health

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Life history calendars (LHCs) are able to capture large-scale retrospective quantitative data, which can be utilized to learn about transitions of behavior change over time. The Testing and Risk History Calendar (TRHC) is a version of life history calendar (LHC) which correlates critical social, sexual and health variables with the timing of HIV testing. In order to fulfill the need for time-bound data regarding HIV testing and risk of older persons in South Africa, a pilot of the TRHC was performed using a paper fold-out grid format. Though the TRHC study in this format was effective as older persons were able to recall details about their HIV testing and risk contexts, the interview process was tedious as data were collected manually. Development of a tablet application for TRHC study will improve data quality and make data entry and collection more automated. This paper presents the development of the TRHC application prototype in order to collect TRHC data electronically and provides a platform for efficient large-scale life history calendar data collection.

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Parallel associations and the structure of autobiographical knowledge.

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Transition theory: A minimalist perspective on the organization of autobiographical memory.

Transition theory: A minimalist perspective on the organization of autobiographical memory.

Assessing the feasibility of a life history calendar to measure HIV risk and health in older South Africans

Development of a Tablet Computer Application for HIV Testing and Risk History Calendar for Use With Older Africans

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