The Life Story Schema

By Susan Bluck, T. Habermas. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence (2004, background): “We now propose to add a third level to this autobiographical knowledge base, the Life Story Schema, which consists of even more global personal history information than lifetime periods (Bluck & Habermas, 2000, 2001).”
Exploring the functions of autobiographical memory: Why do I remember the autumn? (2002, background): “meaningful in the scope of the whole life ( Bluck & Habermas, 2001 ).”
Sensory-perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory. (2001, background): “A lifetime period may also contain a more or less detailed evaluation , e.g.`this was a good/bad time for me' and they may be chunked into higher order units to form life story schema which in turn form part of the self concept (see Bluck & Habermas 2001).”
How to Tell a Life: The Development of the Cultural Concept of Biography (2007, background): “This life script also plays a role in the autobiographical knowledge base as defined by Martin Conway, because it can be considered the conventional aspect of the individual life story schema ( Bluck & Habermas, 2000 ), which is conceived of as the most abstract and overarching knowledge structure i”
Getting a Life Takes Time: The Development of the Life Story in Adolescence, Its Precursors and Consequences (2015, background): “The claims that the life story is an internalized, evolving story of the self [McAdams, 1985] and that a life story schema is a cognitive representation of a skeletal version of the life story [Bluck & Habermas, 2000] require a certain stability of life narratives being told over time.”
The peaks of life: The differential temporal locations of the reminiscence bump across disparate cueing methods (2015, background): “…account is consistent with the difference in the size of the bump across the word-cued versus important memory methods (Rubin & Schulkind, 1997b), Bluck and Habermas (2000) likewise argue that this difference in the size of the bump likely reflects the greater use of the life story schema in the…”
Investigating the Memorable Experiences of the Senior Travel Market: An Examination of the Reminiscence Bump (2011, background): “Experiences from the transition to adulthood are often recollected and rehearsed, and the memories are gradually integrated into one’s life story (Bluck & Habermas, 2000).”
Development of outstanding leadership: A life narrative approach (2008, background): “Life narratives, or life stories, have been described as an economic summary of life's experiences (Anderson & Conway, 1993; Bluck & Habermas, 2000).”
Developing a Life Story: Constructing Relations between Self and Experience in Autobiographical Narratives (2007, background): “…carry with them from situation to situation; other researchers have proposed something more akin to a kind of schema that permits people to construct episodes of the life story around important life periods, highly significant events, and recurrent themes or issues [Bluck & Habermas, 2000].”
Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation (2014, background): “The most fundamental level of the knowledge base that underpins autobiographical memory is the life story schema, defined as the overall framework for a specific life narrative (Bluck & Habermas, 2000).”