PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Semantic Network, Spreading Activation, Thiamine
2 Apr 2015
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Episodic and semantic memory: episodic memory: the memory system concerned with personally experience events, semantic memory: the memory system concerned with the knowledge of words, concepts, and their relationships. The development of the theory of memory systems: researchers suggest that there might be 5 memory systems, episodic, semantic, procedural, perceptual, and working. Implicit memory: there are many situations in which a person remembers something without being aware of doing. Implicit memory: memory without episodic awareness; the expression of previous experience without conscious recollection of the prior episode. Involuntary semantic memories: a semantic memory that pops into your mind without episodic context. Working memory: working memory: the system that allows for the temporary storage and manipulation of information that is necessary for various cognitive activities. It is the system that pulls all the other memory systems together and it has four components: central executive: the component that coordinated information from among the three subtypes.
