TYPES OF LTM

TYPES OF LTM

1. SEMANTIC

   • Knowledge of the world
     • Facts
     • Words and concepts
   • Not 'time-stamped'
   • Explicit memory
     • 'knowing that'
   • Start as episodic but loose their association with particular events and only the knowledge remains
   • Need to be recalled deliberately

2. EPISODIC

   • Personal events
   • Includes memories of when, the people, objects, place and behaviours
     • Interwoven to produce 1 memory
   • Have to be retrieved consciously and with effort
     • Quickly but still aware
   • 'time-stamped'
     • Recently
     • Years ago
   • Explicit memory

3. PROCEDURAL

   • Knowledge of how to do things
   • Recalled without making a conscious or deliberate effort
   • Require a lot of repetition and practice
   • Implicit memory
     • Difficult to explain to someone else
     • 'knowing how'