PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Semantic Similarity, Semantic Memory, Mental Chronometry

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Explicit memory: semantic memory [consciously retrieving general facts and information] + episodic memory [consciously retrieving a memory of an event from a specific time and place] For episodic memory you need content and context from the memory. Semantic memory only needs content, no context required. Semantic memory definition = where we store all acquired knowledge of the world as well as the self. Semantic memory is accumulated throughout our lifetime from episodic memories. Removing "unnecessary" details like the date, the time, the weather from episodic memory becomes semantic memory. We have all of them connected in some way: There are units, properties and pointers in this model. Units = things or objects you want to represent. An example in this picture would be an animal: bird or canary. Properties = the bird eats and breathes, they have feathers and can fly.