PSY 367 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Episodic Memory, Autobiographical Memory, Semantic Memory
14 Mar 2019
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Semantic memory - the neurocognitive memory system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information concerning knowledge of the world. Episodic memory - the neurocognitive memory system that encodes, stores, and retrieves memories of our personal individual experiences. Flashbulb memories - highly confident personal memories of surprising events. In order to study them, researchers have focused on the memory of public tragedies such as. Episodic memories necessarily are concerned with the past while semantic memories usually concern the present. Autobiographical memory - the memories we have of our own lives. Not associated with any individual particular neurocognitive system in the way that episodic and semantic memory are. Autobiographical memory is a combination of episodic memory and self-referential semantic memories. All episodic memories are autobiographical, but not all autobiographical memories are episodic. Tulving first proposed the distinction, but there was little evidence at the time (1972)
