Overview

Question 0

Describe the ‘working self’?

Answer 0

A cognitive structure. Involves conceptions about self and current set of active goals (goal hierarchy). The working self manages the construction and retrieval of AMs.

Question 1

What are autobiographical memories?

Answer 1

They are considered to be the database of the self. They give continuity to experience and help us to integrate with others. They offer a personal historical context of who we are now.