| | MCT score | Contextual specificity | Examples (Cue-word proposed) |
| | (5) Richly detailed specific events | + | Boat: I was in Alger for professional reasons, and I had to take the plane to go to Casablanca. In the waiting room, I was intrigued because a lot of people spoke Russian. I asked repeatedly the policemen to confirm that the plane was really going to Casablanca. I finally boarded the plane, it was an Illyushin. Once seated in the cabin, my neighbor, who was an Algerian, finally revealed to me that the plane was actually going to Moscow! I was afraid of not being able to go out of the plane anymore and to leave for Russia… but I finally managed to leave the cabin and to join the right flight … I was around 58, it must have been in September, it was still very warm … I was there on my own. |
| | (4) Poorly detailed specific events | + | Damaged: At the age of 10, one day of September, 1943, Strasbourg was bombarded by the Germans. The weather was warm and clear. My parents’ house was next to the river Ill. Suddenly, we saw bombs falling everywhere… “What happens?” Neudorf had already been bombarded and we understood rapidly what was currently going on. Houses all around us collapsed. We went to take refuge in the basement. I was scared… I was with my parents and there were also neighbors, it seem to remember. |
| | (3) Detailed generic or repeated events | − | Train: When I was 9, the family acquired a black Citroën. Since then, we used to go regularly to the valley of X to picnic. My father usually set off to pick mushrooms and stayed for hours… My mother had to call him back shouting so that he could hear her and return. Meanwhile, my sister, my mother and I used to pick blackberries. My mother used to cooked blackberries in all possible and unimaginable ways… Now, I cannot eat them anymore. |
| | (2) Poorly detailed generic or repeated events | − | Happy: When I was 3 years old, my parents settled down in Strasbourg, and we lived next to a childless couple. The husband was a doctor. His wife, X, liked me very much and often took care of me. |
| | (1) Semantic facts | − | Letter: In Alsace at that time, before going to the school, we went to the “Kindergarten” |
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