PSY 3437 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory
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Long-term memory: the permanent and limitless storehouse for the memory system. Your factual knowledge or understanding of the word: implicit memory. Unknowing application of knowledge: priming, well-practiced procedures, classical conditioning. Semantic vs. episodic: episodic = time-linked and self-linked. Information related by when it occurred to you: semantic = space-linked and meaning-linked. Information related by ownership: each has its own disorders. Connections to self are particularly strong: retrieval. The more connections you can make to existing memories the better. Encoding and retrieval of semantic and episodic memories: episodic. Retrieve: and endless chain of events, back in time: semantic. Interactions between episodic and semantic: episodic is semantic with self and time. Episodic can be lost, leaving only semantic. Memory may start as episodic but then fade to semantic. Semantic can be enhanced if associated with episodic. The effect of time: loss of episodic details. The process of semanticization and eventual loss of memory.
