PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Procedural Memory
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How can we recall information collected: through the long-term memory (ltm) system, which concerns the storage and retrieval of information at least several days old. There are 2 types of sub-memory in the ltm system: explicit/declarative, implicit/non-declarative. Explicit memories are remembered things within one"s immediate conscious and can be immediately declared and explained: episodic memory = stories. E. g. how learned theories work, how certain things came to be, etc: semantic memory = facts. E. g. telling the result of e = mc^2, telling that william the conqueror was indeed a bastard. Implicit memories are thus remembered things that are within one"s subconscious and cannot be readily explained: procedural memory. Muscle memory/motor patterns: classical conditioning, cognitive associations. E. g. priming; where the exposure to a previous idea will in uence one"s later responses to a certain stimulus or something related to said stimulus. Both types of sub-memory break down into differing biological backgrounds.
