ABSTRACT
Autobiographical memory (Brewer, 1996; Conway, 1990; Conway & Rubin, 1993; Conway, Rubin, Spinnler, & Wagenaar, 1992; Neisser & Fivush, 1994; Rubin, 1986, 1996) and the interaction of autobiographical memory and survey research (Jobe, Tourangeau, & Smith, 1993; Schwarz & Sudman, 1994) have been fruitful areas of study over the last few decades. Because older adults have more life to remember, much of this work has been integrated into the study of cognitive aging. Rather than provide an overview of the field, I will concentrate on one aspect of interest to survey research: how autobiographical memories are distributed over the life-span.
