Laboratory procedures obscure real characteristics of memory.
Psychologists are not interested in such questions primarily because they believe they are doing something more important. They are working toward a general theory of memory, a scientific understanding of its underlying mechanisms, more fundamental and far-reaching than any research on worldly questions could possibly be. (3)
If X is an interesting or socially significant aspect of memory, then psychologists have hardly ever studied X. (2)
Ethology: Study of animals/organisms in their natural environments.
Ethnography: A branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures
Quote: “I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” –Sophia Loren (Italian film Actress, 1934)
Different types of past memories:
Everyone uses the past to define themselves (6)
Past experiences are recalled in search of self-improvement (7)
Personal memories achieve a kind of public importance (7): legal testimonies, eyewitnesses
Remembering events secondhand (that of friends, etc.)
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