PSL440Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Dual Process Theory, Encoding Specificity Principle, Mil-Std-6011
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Chapter 5 encoding and retrieval from long-term memory. Declarative memory includes two types of memories: i. ii. Episodic memory; the memory of events in our own personal past. It is the conscious knowledge that is temporally dated and spatially located. Such type of memory has a context e. g. meeting a friend in a room. Semantic memory; our general knowledge about things in the world and their meaning. It is the knowledge of words and concepts, their properties and their interrelations. The power of memory: the story of hm. As soon as the information acquired disappeared from his working memory, he almost completely forgot it. This forgetting reveals an inability to form, retain or retrieve new episodic memories. Hm was frozen in time i. e. he was unable to update his personal life narrative because of the inability to remember daily experiences.
