PSYC 351A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Episodic Memory
22 Jun 2016
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Types of long-term memory: episodic: memory for personal events. No guarantee of accuracy: semantic: facts and knowledge. * episodic and semantic show a double dissociation. Separation of episodic and semantic memories: k. c. damaged hippocampus. No episodic memory, cannot relive any events of his past. Semantic memory intact, can remember general information about the past. Ex. he knows his brother passed away but could not describe his feelings about it: italian woman. Impaired semantic memory: ex - doesn"t know what tomato" means. Episodic memory for past events was preserved: evidence from brain-imaging experiments that retrieving episodic and semantic memories activate different areas of the brain. Results showed that depending on the type of memory (episodic and semantic) was associated with different regions in the brain. The effect of time: typical research ndings are that forgetting increases with longer intervals from the original encoding.
