PSYC 3330 Chapter 6: chapter 6 episodic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: Mark Fenske

Document Summary

Tulving (cid:862)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal ti(cid:373)e t(cid:396)a(cid:448)el(cid:863) allo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g us to t(cid:396)a(cid:448)el back and relive earlier episodes and use this to travel forward and anticipate future events. Crucial feature is the capacity to remember specific events. Need some kind of mental filing system that allows you to distinguish that event from similar events, System that allows you to encode that particular experience in a distinguishable way. Requires a method of storing that even in a durable form. Requires a method of searching the system and retrieving that particular memory this in turn needs 3 things. Such events may then accumulate and consolidate to form the basis of semantic memory our knowledge of the world. Impaired memory in amnesic patients is generally associated with impaired knowledge acquisition, the capacity to continue to develop knowledge of the world, rather than capacity to retrieve existing knowledge. 2 different traditions of the psychology of memory.