PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: Melissa Gibbons

Document Summary

Long-term memory storing: short-term versus long-term memory a. i. How do we know they are two separate systems? a. i. 1. Primary effect seems to result from information being successfully encoded and stored into long-term memory due to more rehearsal time than information later in the list a. i. 2. Recency effect seems to result from information still being in short-term memory at the time of recall a. ii. There are two types of long term memory: declarative versus procedural or nondeclarative b. i. Involves memories for facts or events, such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, faces, or daily events b. i. 2. These memories are explicit, or consciously known: two types of declarative memory c. i. Type of declarative memory that involves knowledge of facts, concepts, words, definitions, and language rules c. i. 1. a. Type of declarative memory that involves knowledge of specific events experiences (episodes), or activities, such as naming or describing favorite restaurants, movies, songs, habits, or hobbies: declarative versus procedural or nondeclarative memory d. i.