Memory of a Gun Crime

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Introduction

Autobiographical memory refers to the system of memory that comprises of episodes of events recollected in an individual's life, and is a combination of episodic and semantic. Episodic refers to the personal experiences and the events; people and objects that one encounter in his life span at some time and place and that get engraved on the memory in one way of the other. Another event is semantic, which comprises of the general knowledge and information regarding the general facts of the world. Information regarding the autobiographical memory, combined with the knowledge of true and invented memory can assist in detecting lies and dealing with the criminals, thus eliminating crime. The following paragraphs examine the different theories regarding different types of memories and thus assisting in analyzing the narrations of the eye-witnesses of a crime scene.

Discussion

Conway and Pleydell-Pearce's (2000) model of autobiographical memory

Conway and Pleydell- Pearce proposed that the autobiographical memory comprises a self-memory system: a knowledge base that comprises knowledge about self and used to assess the position of self. The information is categorized into three broad categories, including lifetime periods, general events and events specific knowledge.

Lifetime periods:

This comprise of the general information regarding one's life events and the major theme in one's life. These include major benchmarks, such as university life, time spent office and marriage.

General Events:

General Events refer to comparatively specific events, more specialized as compared to the lifetime periods. Similar events form clusters in the memory, and thus when one remembers a cluster, the subject remembers all the events in that domain at once.

Event Specific Knowledge:

This is more specialized form than the two mentioned above, and provides a detailed account of one single event of an incident. It includes all the details that the first ...