The self-concept and memories of past experiences develop dialectically and begin to form a life history. The life history, in turn, helps organize both memories of past experiences and the self-concept. The life history is essentially what Barsalou calls the extended time lines, or the person's 'story line.' It is only with the construction of the life history that we have true autobiographical memory.

• self-definition
• personal history
• memory
• experience
• self-representation
• narrative
• narratization
• time
• life
• self
• past
• history