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--- teaching:autobiographical:autobiographical_assignment [2019/10/07 13:23] – anthony
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 [[teaching:autobiographical:autobiographical_instructions|Instructions given to students]]
+[[https://github.com/acate/autobiographical|Github page for code]]
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 ===== Frequency of memories by age at which events occurred =====
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+Memories of recent events, especially from within the past two to four years, were more commonly recalled.
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 ===== Number and type of elements in the memories =====
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-There was a significant dip in the amount of detail present in memories from around the age of 12:
+More recent memories were rated to contain more detail (elements) than older memories.
+Interestingly, there was a significant dip in the amount of detail present in memories from around the age of 12.
+This graph combines elements across all 8 categories:
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+Memories included more details about people than anything else.  (Note that the category "details" stands for "other details.")
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 ==== Gender effects ====
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+Overall, the number of details for memories about different ages was similar for females and males.
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 ===== Correlations among the types of elements retrieved =====
+The number of people and place elements per memory were rather uncorrelated with the other categories.  This could mean that memories about people and places are retrieved independently from other kinds of details.
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+This graph plots the mean correlations coefficient between the given category and each of the other 7 categories.
+Lower mean correlations indicate that a type of element was retrieved independently of other element types.
 {{teaching:autobiographical:TYPE_mean_correlations.svg}}
-Lower mean correlations indicate that a type of element was retrieved independently of other element types.
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 ==== Gender effects ====
+There appeared to be significant age by gender interactions in emotional content of memories.
+However, as always, one should be cautious about generalizing from these results, especially given the smallish number of individuals who participated.
 {{teaching:autobiographical:PLEASURE_bY_AGE_and_GENDER.svg}}