Types Of Ltm Flashcards
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Episodic memory
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Our ability to recall personal experiences and events from our lives, you have to make a conscious effort to remember these,and once you have done this they are very easy to verbalise, strength of episodic memory depends on the emotions present at the time of the memory is coded. The memories are also time stamped
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Semantic memory
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Facts about the world, this is also a conscious type of memory, less personal and not time stamped
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Procedural memory
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This memory is for actions and skills, we can recall this without conscious awareness. It can be difficult to verbalise these skills (non declarative)
