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:
“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
“If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)