Long-Term Memory

Long-Term Memory

1. Episodic Memory

   • Individually experienced events
   • AKA autobiographical memory
   • Things you have done in your life, specific to you
     • EX: The first job you had.
     • EX: Going to college

2. Semantic Memory

   • General conceptual knowledge of the world
   • Core is universal in that most people have the same basic knowledge.
     • EX: The concept of food is a universal element.
   • Central to comprehension and the meaningful use of words
   • Simplest unit is a concept.
     • Defined as the representation of a class of objects or actions

3. Lexical Memory

   • Word forms and information about words
   • The ability to remember the words or morphemes
   • Making associations among words
     • Words are related by similarity of sound
     • Words are related by meaning
     • Words are related by syntactic function

4. Procedural Memory

   • For skills like swinging a golf club
   • Memory for how to do something
   • For skills like riding a bicycle
   • Support the learning of new and the control of established, sensorimotor and cognitive habits and skills