Citation

Dritschel BH. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 1991; 5(4): 319-330.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.2350050403

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper discusses the methodological issues involved in studying autobiographical memory in natural discourse. A method is developed herein that is sufficiently versatile to be used to probe various other research questions. The analysis of four equal-length transcripts using this method demonstrates that autobiographical memory units can be reliably distinguished from other personal memory and non-memory idea units. Further, the reliability of subdividing the autobiographical memories into classes is also shown. There is a discussion of how this type of work relates to relevant research in autobiographical memory. The potential application of these results is also described.

Language: en