CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term autobiographical memory refers to our memory for specific episodes, episodic memory, and to our conceptual, generic, and schematic knowledge of our lives, autobiographical knowledge.

Detailed explanation-2: -Autobiographical memory is often described in terms of two types of long-term memory, semantic (knowledge about the self) and episodic (event-specific knowledge related to past personal experiences) memory (Tulving, 2002).

Detailed explanation-3: -Autobiographical memory (AM) is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.

Detailed explanation-4: -1 Episodic Memory. Episodic memory refers to memory for particular events situated in space and time, as well as the underlying cognitive processes and neural mechanisms involved in remembering those events.

Detailed explanation-5: -Episodic memory is associated with the events that take place in the life of an individual. These memories are stored in the limbic system of the brain.