PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory, Episodic Memory
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Any memory of a specific event that happened while you were present is an episodic memory. Semantic memory contains generalized knowledge of the world that does not involve memory of a specific event. Explicit memory processes are much more negatively affected by the passing of time than are implicit memory processes. Explicit memory decreased between the two tests, but implicit memory hardly changed. Elaborative rehearsal requires a deeper level of processing; hence these memories are stronger than those encoded with maintenance rehearsal. Storing new memories sensory memorysensory memory holds information from all the senses in sensory registers for a fraction of a second. Short-term memory and working memoryshort-term memory receives the information that was perceived and selectively attended to in sensory memory or retrieved from long-term memory. Working memory allows us to mentally work with information held in short-term memory, making short- term memory a component of working memory.
