Memory: Types of LTM

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What is explicit memory?
"Knowing that" or the conscious recollection of past experience e.g. time of an appointment, memory of a birthday party
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What is implicit memory?
"Knowing how" is the unconscious recollection of past experience e.g. riding a bike, words to a song
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What is episodic memory?
Memory of personal experiences, remembered as events as part of a larger sequence
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What are the three components of episodic memory?
Specific detail

Context

Emotion
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What is semantic memory?
"General knowledge"

Knowledge acquired as episodic memories that lose their association to particular events e.g. burn your hand on a flame, learn to avoid flame, forget the hand burn incident
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What is procedural memory?
Skill gained through practice and repetition. These are automatic
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What are the strengths of this approach?
Brain scan evidence: Different brain areas are active when using different types of LTM

Episodic: Frontal lobe and hippocampus

Semantic: Temporal lobe

Procedural: Cerebellum and motor cortex
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What are the strengths of this approach? (cont.)
HM (case study subject) lost ability to form episodic/semantic memories after the removal of his hippocampus. He learned mirror drawing (drawing a picture by looking at its reflection) but had no memory of learning it
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