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Autobiographical Memory Test  

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  • A task to assess the degree of specificity of autobiographical memories. Derived from the cue-word method, it is mostly used in a clinical setting, especially for assessing the existence of overgeneral autobiographical memories (for example, in people with depression and in post-traumatic stress disorder). Subjects are asked to generate autobiographical memories from positive (e.g. happy) or negative (e.g. injured) cue-words. Variations of this task exist (inclusion or not of emotionally neutral words, number of cue-words, instructions, etc.).

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  • • Deplus, S., Grégoire, J., & Van Broeck, N. (2013). Tâche d’évaluation de la mémoire autobiographique (TEMA) adaptée à l’enfant. Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, 63(3), 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2012.10.001

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  • • Dritschel, B., Beltsos, S., & McClintock, S. M. (2013). An "alternating instructions" version of the Autobiographical Memory Test for assessing autobiographical memory specificity in non-clinical populations. Memory, 22(8), 881-889. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2013.839710

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  • • Van Vreeswijk, M. F., & de Wilde, E. J. (2004). Autobiographical memory specificity, psychopathology, depressed mood and the use of the Autobiographical Memory Test: a meta-analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42(6), 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00194-3

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
  • • Williams, J. M., & Broadbent, K. (1986). Autobiographical memory in suicide attempters. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(2), 144-149. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.95.2.144

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  • Frank Arnould

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