Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Memory. 2012;20(2):167-76. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2011.651087. Epub 2012 Jan 25.
Remembering previous experiences from one's personal past is a principal component of psychological well-being, personality, sense of self, decision making, and planning for the future. In the current study the ability to search for autobiographical information in memory was examined by having college students recall their Facebook friends. Individual differences in working memory capacity manifested itself in the search of autobiographical memory by way of the total number of friends remembered, the number of clusters of friends, size of clusters, and the speed with which participants could output their friends' names. Although working memory capacity was related to the ability to search autobiographical memory, participants did not differ in the manner in which they approached the search and used contextual cues to help query their memories. These results corroborate recent theorising, which suggests that working memory is a necessary component of self-generating contextual cues to strategically search memory for autobiographical information.
记住个人过去的经历是心理健康、个性、自我意识、决策和规划未来的主要组成部分。在当前的研究中，通过让大学生回忆他们的 Facebook 好友，来考察他们在记忆中搜索自传体信息的能力。工作记忆容量的个体差异表现在通过记住的朋友总数、朋友群的数量、群的大小以及参与者能够输出朋友名字的速度来搜索自传体记忆。尽管工作记忆容量与搜索自传体记忆的能力有关，但参与者在搜索方式上并没有差异，他们都使用上下文线索来帮助查询记忆。这些结果证实了最近的理论假设，即工作记忆是自我生成上下文线索的必要组成部分，用于策略性地搜索自传体信息的记忆。
