PSYCH 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lexical Decision Task, Retrograde Amnesia, Endel Tulving

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3330
• Professor: Robert Campbell

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First, we talk about a classic, ancient approach to memory, mnemonic devices. The term mnemonic means to help the memory . If you were asked what happened when you took your driver"s license test, you. Long-term memory is divided and subdivided in various ways. A distinction can be made between declarative memory (or explicit memory) and nondeclarative memory (or implicit memory). Here, declarative or explicit memory is long-term memory knowledge that is retrieved and reflected on consciously. In contrast, nondeclarative or implicit memory is knowledge that influences thought and behavior without any necessary involvement of consciousness. The key to this distinction is conscious awareness one has it, one doesn"t. retrieve knowledge from episodic memory, that is, memory of the personally experienced events. Alternatively, if you were asked what a driver"s license is, you retrieve from semantic memory, your general world knowledge.