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SAM

Survey of Autobiographical Memory. A twenty-six-item self-report measure across four subscales, used for SDAM research.

The subscale that matters most for SDAM is Episodic, which asks how much you can mentally re-experience past events. A consistently low Episodic score with normal Semantic scores is the SDAM signature. Like the VVIQ, the SAM is evidence, not a diagnosis.