PSYC 4220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Aphelocoma, Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4220
• Professor: Tifrah Warner

Document Summary

There are two types of memory: those that are explicit and those that are implicit, the former being conscious and the latter relatively unconscious. Declarative memories are the most familiar subtype of explicit memory. They are a catalogue of detailed data that allow us to consciously remember things and to tell reasonably factual stories about them, stories with beginnings, middles, and ends. The general role of declarative memories is to communicate discrete pieces of information to other individuals. These semantic memories are objective and devoid of feelings and emotions. cerebral cortex that they use for their hardware and operating system. Declarative memories are relatively orderly, neat, and tidy, like the highly structured. If declarative memory is characterized as cold factual information, episodic memory a. Episodic memories are often infused with feeling tones and vitality, whether of second form of explicit memory would be, in contrast, warm and textured. positive or negative valence, and richly encode our personal life experiences.