<P> Autobiographical memory is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory . It is thus a type of explicit memory . </P> <P> Conway and Pleydell - Pearce (2000) proposed that autobiographical memory is constructed within a self - memory system (SMS), a conceptual model composed of an autobiographical knowledge base and the working self . </P>

This type of memory contains concepts meaning of words and facts