1377). 3. The Controversy Associated With Recovered Repressed Memories and Conway

The importance of autobiographical memory, as confirmed by Conway (2001) has lead not only to research regarding memory distortions, but also to studies regarding recovered repressed memories. Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008) state that a controversy exists as to whether or not memories of traumatic events that have been "recovered" can be completely trusted. Conway's (2001) argument relating episodic memory to autobiographical memory certainly relates. Conway (2001) argues that episodic memories are routinely forgotten, even as soon as 24 hours after they occur, and that the autobiographical memory is the context to which they are tethered in order to be remembered. Thus, Conway (2001) would most likely argue that the validity of recovered memories lies in their relation to the self or autobiographical...

An analysis of Autobiographical Memory According to Conway
While Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008) call autobiographical memory, "memory for the experiences that comprise a person's life story or autobiography," Conway (2001) suggests that autobiographical memory is something more, a part of a hierarchy to which episodic memory clings, and a tool for not only retrieving episodic memory, but for linking short-term and long-term memory. Conway's (2001) study begs the question: what episodes make up a person's self. Surely not all of them do, and Conway wonders which make the cut.

References

Conway, M.A. (2001) Sensory perceptual episodic memory and its context:

autobiographical memory. In Episodic Memory (Baddeley, a. et al., eds), Oxford University Press

Robinson-Reigler, G. & Robinson-Reigler, B. Cognitive…