Kinds of Memory

Question 1

Episodic Memory

Answer 1

Episodes: events with time and place
“I saw and elephant at the zoo in 2008”

Question 2

Generic/Semantic Memory

Answer 2

Facts, concepts, and meanings
“An elephant has big ears”

Question 3

Explicit Memory

Answer 3

1. Reference to prior learning experience
2. Recall: what were the words on the list you read?
3. Recognition: circle the words you saw earlier

Question 4

Implicit Memory

Answer 4

1. No conscious awareness of remembering
2. Priming: read list of words then do tasks
3. Stem completion: “MOT-“
4. Word fragment completion: “-U-O-O-I-E”

Question 5

Declarative Memory

Answer 5

1. Knowing that (mainly explicit)
2. Statements, using episodic and generic information

Question 6

Procedural Memory

Answer 6

1. Knowing how (mainly implicit)
2. Skills: riding a bike, playing an instrument

Question 7

Henry Molaison

Answer 7

Surgeons removed his hippocampus to quell seizures, but then he was left with permanent amnesia; results in anterograde amnesia for explicit memory