Author Question: Lam and Buehler (2009) used targeted event recall to see how subjectively distant people feel from ... (Read 58 times)

KimWrice · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Lam and Buehler (2009) used targeted event recall to see how subjectively distant people feel from their memories.

They had participants think back to a target event (acceptance to college) via either backward recall
(recall events from now, back to the time of acceptance) or forward recall (recall the acceptance to college, and
then subsequent events up to the present). They also asked people to rate their own judgment of how much they had changed since the target event. With forward recall, memories seemed ______ than with backward recall,
and forward recall led participants to _____ judgments of self-change, relative to backward recall.
a) more recent; lower
b) more recent; higher
c) more remote; lower
d) more remote; higher

Question 2

You interview your 74 year old grandmother about the events in her life. Based on what you know about the autobiographical retention function, which of these would surprise you?

a) She remembers very little from when she was a toddler.
b) She remembers a great deal from the last few years.
c) She doesn't remember much from her early adulthood.
d) Her infant years are a complete blank.