Types of memory

Types of memory

1. Episodic memory

   • memory of every day events (such as times, location geography, associated emotion
   • part of explicit memory
   • They make autobiographical remembering specific
   • subject to rapid forgetting.

2. Semantic memory

   • long-term memory
   • processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience
   • includes things that are common knowledge, such as the names of colours
   • semantic and episodic differ in how they operate and the types of information they process

3. Procedural memory

   • Perceptual-motor skills
   • can be implicit
   • part of the long-term memory

4. Sensory memory

   • known as short-term memory
   • allows people to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimulus has ceased
   • no manipulation of the incoming information occurs

5. Working memory

   • short term memory + processing
   • important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behaviour