PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Episodic Memory, Mental Model, Self-Reference
11 Dec 2017
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Memory is the repository of experiences and the shaper of our future actions. Memories for events that we experiences are episodic memories. Memories for general world knowledge are semantic memories. Ability to engage in mental time travel, which is associated with tulving"s idea of autonoetic consciousness. Ability to mentally reinstate the context or circumstances of events, and relive or replay them as we were there again. Episodic memories are amalgams of different types of information. Components can be used either as whole units or as separate pieces. An illustration of this memory for text, where there are three levels of representation; the surface form, the textbase, and the mental model. Sentence might have a different surface forms, but the same underlying meaning. Represents the state of affairs described by the text, rather than the text itself. Remembered over a long period of time. Episodic memories- they often contain who, what, when, where and whi and how of an experience.
