CONSISTENCY OF EARLIEST MEMORIES: If the Event is the same, is the Story (or memory)? Público
Tasdemir, Aylin (2012)
Published
Abstract
Earliest memories, as our first memories in which we have a "self"
and an ability to recode a
memory after childhood amnesia, has rarely been questioned for the
consistency of memories
and their content. In order to fill this gap and provide a new
direction to the earliest memory
literature, in the present research, we examined the consistency of
adults' earliest memories over
a 4-year longitudinal study and also sought to determine some of
the factors associated with
consistency. In order to measure consistency, we created a new
consistency scheme and coded
all memories for narrative breadth and coherence to observe if
these facts affect the consistency
scores. Results indicated 1) adults reported the same event as
their earliest memory almost each
time they were asked; 2) these events on the other hand, contain a
few common components
which stayed stable in each report; 3) completeness was not a
determiner of stability whereas
coherence prevented time and place information from being lost over
time. Implications of these
findings are discussed as a source for understanding the nature and
specialty of earliest
memories' content.
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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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METHOD
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PARTICIPANTS
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PROCEDURE
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CODING
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Consistency of the event
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RESULTS
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DISCUSSION
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REFERENCES........................................................................................................................
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TABLES AND FIGURES
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX1: SUMMARY TABLE OF NARRATIVE BREADTH (WH) CODES AND
DETAILS OF THE
MAIN COMPONENTS FOR CONSISTENCY
SCHEME.....................................................................
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APPENDIX2: AN EXAMPLE WORKSHEET FOR CONSISTENCY CONTENT CODING OF A
MEMORY .. 25
APPENDIX3: AN EXAMPLE FOR THE 2ND SPREAD SHEET OF CONSISTENCY
CODING FOR A
PARTICIPANT'S MEMORY.
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APPENDIX4: AN EXAMPLE OF A PARTICIPANT'S SCORES FOR BREADTH CODES.
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APPENDIX 5: THE CRITERIA FOR EACH SCORE FOR NACCS CATEGORIES
ACCORDING TO THE
REESE ET AL. (2011)
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APPENDIX6:
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AN EXAMPLE OF LEVELS OF NARRATIVE COHERENCE ON THE NACCS
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List of Table and Figures
Table 1
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Table 2
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Figure 1: the Mean of Narrative Breadth (Wh) Scores
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Figure 2: the Mean of the Naccs Scores
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Figure 3: The Consistency Proportion Of Main Components the Event
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Figure 4: the consistency proportion of details (descriptions of
main components) .................... 36
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