First cognitive psychologist to realise MSM view of LTM was inflexible and simplitics. He proposed three stores with different types of information
Episodic memory
Refers to our ability to recall events from our diaries. Linked to diaries or a record of daily happenings.
Process of remembering episodic memories
Firstly, the memories are time-stamped, then the single episode includes several elements: people,places,objects, behaviours which are all interwoven to a single episode. Thirdly, you have to make a conscious effort to recall episodic memories
Semantic memory
Less personal and contains general knowledge that is not time-stamped to when we learned the information. Contains an immense collection of material which is constantly being added to
Procedural memory
Memory of skills and actions: how we do things. We can recall these memories without conscious awareness or great effort. Our ability to do this depends on the procedural memory
Describing skills from procedural memory
These skills may be hard to explain to someone else and when explaining the task, the task my become more difficult
