Long-term Memory

Question 1

Long-term memory

Answer 1

• storage of info encoded from STM
• unlimited capacity
• relatively permanent

Question 2

Explicit Declarative Memory

Answer 2

• knowledge or experiences that are consciously recalled
• episodic or semantic
  e.g. knowing the capital city of a country

Question 3

Episodic Memory

(explicit)

Answer 3

• ability to remember personally experienced events associated with a particular time and place
• remembering past events that have been directly experienced
  What? Where? When?

Question 4

Semantic Memory

(explicit)

Answer 4

• memory for general factual knowledge and concepts without a particular time and place

Question 5

Implicit Non-Declarative Memory

Answer 5

• knowledge that is not consciously recalled
• procedural and classically-conditioned memory or priming
  e.g. riding a bike

Question 6

Procedural Memory

(implicit)

Answer 6

• long-term memory for skills involved in tasks
• demonstrated through performance and not declaring this knowledge
• resistant to forgetting
  e.g. riding a bike

Question 7

Classically Conditioned Memory

(impliciit)

Answer 7

• conditioned response to a stimulus is implicit

Question 8

Priming

(implicit)

Answer 8

• prior exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later similar stimulus

Question 9

Recall vs Recognition

(retrieval from LTM) (3)

Answer 9

• recognition - recollection that information has been previously encountered or learned
• recall - spontaneous conscious recollection of information
  MCQ vs Short Answer