ABSTRACT
We usually associate the word memory with remembering facts or information such as names of towns, mathematical formulas, or the many different things we have seen or experienced. Implicit memory is about how we conduct ourselves, about the unique way of being. Explicit memory is about what we have stored of the details of our experience. Children begin to understand that they can see their intentions as representational, as relative, as things that belong to them personally and not as the only truth (for example, a belief). They can think about thinking; they have developed a theory of mind. The child organises memories of his acts and experiences, thus creating an autobiographical self. Stern discusses forms of experiencing self that he refers to by the following terms: self-agency; self-coherence; and self-continuity.
