Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Emotional Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Williams, J. Mark G.; Barnhofer, Thorsten; Crane, Catherine; Herman, Dirk; Raes, Filip; Watkins, Ed; Dalgleish, Tim
Titel	Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Emotional Disorder
Quelle	In: Psychological Bulletin, 133 (2007) 1, S.122-148 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-2909
Schlagwörter	Patients; Memory; Emotional Disturbances; Autobiographies; Personal Narratives; Generalization; Recall (Psychology); Mnemonics; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patient; Gedächtnis; Gefühlsstörung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Erlebniserzählung; Abberufung; Mnemotechnik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single episode. The mechanisms underlying such overgeneral memory are examined, with a focus on M. A. Conway and C. W. Pleydell-Pearce's (2000) hierarchical search model of personal event retrieval. An elaboration of this model is proposed to account for overgeneral memory, focusing on how memory search can be affected by (a) capture and rumination processes, when mnemonic information used in retrieval activates ruminative thinking; (b) functional avoidance, when episodic material threatens to cause affective disturbance; and (c) impairment in executive capacity and control that limits an individual's ability to remain focused on retrieval in the face of distraction. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10