Types
- Specific Events
- When you first stepped foot in the ocean.
- General Events
- What it feels like stepping into the ocean in general. This is a memory of what a personal event is generally like. It might be based on the memories of having stepped in the ocean, many times during the years.
- Personal Facts
- "Who was the Prime Minister of Italy when I was born?"
- Flashbulb Memories
- Flashbulb memories are critical autobiographical memories about a major event. Some flashbulb memories are shared within a social group:
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- "The assassination of John Kennedy?"
- "The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?"
- "The Challenger explosion?"
- "The verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial?"
- "When you learned that Princess Diana had died?"
- "When you heard about 9/11?"
Read more about this topic: Episodic Memory
Famous quotes containing the word types:
“The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutions for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
—Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)