M - Types of long-term memory

Question 1

What is an episodic memory?

Answer 1

Personal memories of events, such as what you did yesterday or a teacher you liked. This kind of memory includes contextual details plus emotional tone.

Question 2

What is a procedural memory?

Answer 2

Memory for how to do things, for example riding a bike or learning how to read. Such memories are automatic as a result of repeated practice.

Question 3

What is a semantic memory?

Answer 3

Shared memories for facts and knowledge. These memories may be concrete, such as knowing that ice is made of water, or abstract, such as mathematical knowledge.

Question 4

What are the 3 types of LTM?

Answer 4

Episodic, semantic and procedural.

Question 5

What are the 3 specific elements of episodic memories?

Answer 5

Specific details of the event, the context and the emotion.

Question 6

What do semantic memories often begin as?

Answer 6

Episodic memories.

Question 7

What 2 things is LTM divided into?

Answer 7

Explicit (or declarative, knowing that) memory and implicit (or procedural memory, knowing how).

Question 8

What types of memory are explicit?

Answer 8

Episodic and semantic.

Question 9

What type of memory is implicit?

Answer 9

Procedural.