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types of memory
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- 1implicit memoryan influence on behaviour, feelings and thought as a result of a prior experience manifested without conscious recollection of the experience
- 2declarativeKNOWING WHAT: memory of facts and events, refers to those memories that can be consciously recalled. xxx memory can be further sub-divided into episodic memory and semantic memory.
- 3explicitConscious recall of facts and events that is classified into episodic memory (involves time and place) and semantic memory (does not involve time and place).
- 4episodicsubset of declarative memory: lets you remember events that you personally experienced at a specific time and place.
The most distinctive feature of xxx memory is that you see yourself as an actor in the events you remember. You therefore memorize not only the events themselves, but also the entire context surrounding them.
the emotional charge that you experience at the time of the events conditions the quality of your memorization of the episode. - 5semanticsubset of declarative memory: a more structured record of facts, meanings, concepts and knowledge about the external world that we have acquired. It refers to general factual knowledge, shared with others and independent of personal experience and of the spatial/temporal context in which it was acquired. xxx memories may once have had a personal context, but now stand alone as simple knowledge. It therefore includes such things as types of food, capital cities, social customs, functions of objects, vocabulary, understanding of mathematics, etc. Much of xxx memory is abstract and relational and is associated with the meaning of verbal symbols.
Is generally derived from the episodic memory, in that we learn new facts or concepts from our experiences, - 6Procedural memoryKNOWING HOW: a subset of implicit memory; the unconscious memory of skills and how to do things, particularly the use of objects or movements of the body, such as tying a shoelace, playing a guitar or riding a bike. These memories are typically acquired through repetition and practice, and are composed of automatic sensorimotor behaviours that are so deeply embedded that we are no longer aware of them. Once learned, these "body memories" allow us to carry out ordinary motor actions more or less automatically: a subset of implicit memory.
- 7Short-term memoryacts as a kind of scratch-pad for temporary recall of the information which is being processed at any point in time, has been refered to as "the brain's Post-it note". It can be thought of as the ability to remember and process information at the same time, holds a small amount of information (typically around 7 items or even less) in mind in an active, readily-available state for a short period of time (typically from 10 to 15 seconds, or sometimes up to a minute).
What is actually held in xxx memory, though, is not complete concepts, but rather links or pointers (such as words, for example) which the brain can flesh out from it's other accumulated knowledge.
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