ABSTRACT

We aimed to explore autobiographical memory for repeated events. For that aim, five instances of the same event category (i.e. last, first, random, distinct, and typical vacation) were collected from 57 (32 females) adults (M_age = 21.8; SD_age = 2.0). Participants also provided the vacation scripts they have in mind. The last instances were expected to be highest in script consistency whereas the first instances would be the lowest due to duration between encoding and retrieval in addition to the frequency of potential script updates. We predicted that random instances selected freely by the participants would display high script-consistency due to ease of access. Finally, distinct instances would vary in their script consistency to the extent that they deviate from a script-consistent vacation experience. Overall, results were in line with the predictions. Findings are discussed in the context of the schema pointer plus tag model and the dynamic memory model.

摘要

我们旨在探索自传式记忆的重复事件。为此，从57名（32名女性）成年人（M_年龄 = 21.8；SD_年龄）中收集了五个相同事件类别的实例（即最后一次，第一次，随机，不同和典型的假期） = 2.0）。参与者还提供了他们所考虑的假期脚本。预期最后一个实例的脚本一致性最高，而第一个实例的编码一致性和检索时间之间的持续时间以及潜在脚本更新的频率都将是最低的。我们预测，由于易于访问，参与者自由选择的随机实例将显示较高的脚本一致性。最后，不同的实例在其脚本一致性方面会有所不同，以致它们偏离了与脚本一致的假期体验。总体而言，结果与预测相符。在架构指针加标签模型和动态内存模型的上下文中讨论了发现。