Explicit memory (I know that...).
Implicit Memory (I know how...).
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What is Episodic Memory?
Explicit. You can remember the event, the context and the emotion. Personal memory.
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What is Semantic Memory?
You know what you learnt but you don't remember the context. General knowledge. Impersonal. Starts as episodic and turns to semantic.
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What is Procedural Memory?
Automatic skills such as swimming, reading and walking. Acquired through repetition and practise.
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Why are brain scans important?
Types of memory have been found to be localised. Episodic - hippocampus and temporal.
Semantic - temporal.
Procedural - cerebellum and motor cortex.
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What was found with Alzheimer's patients?
Hodges and Patterson found that some Alzheimer's patients were able to form semantic memories without episodic memories. They can be formed separately.
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What is Priming?
When implicit memories influence responses to stimuli. (If a person is given a list of yellow things, later when they are asked for a fruit, they will likely say banana).
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What did they find about priming?
It is controlled in a part of the brain called the perceptual-representation system (PRS). This could be the 4th LTM type. Supported by Spiers et al.
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What is Episodic Memory?
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Explicit. You can remember the event, the context and the emotion. Personal memory.
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