types of LTM

• episodic memory - 'knowing that'

  personal recollections of events in out lives make up episodic memory ,these memories are time stamped. your memory of this episode will involve context of the event and your emotions. these memories involve conscious recall of the episode
• semantic memory - 'knowing that'

  these are memories relating to knowledge about the world. the memories can be related to functions of objects but also abstract ideas such as knowledge of mathematical rules. They begin as episodic memories but as we acquire knowledge, the memory begins to lose its association to the event and becomes a factual memory.
• procedural memory - 'knowing how'

  this is our memory for skills we can recall subconsciously. therefore known as implicit memory as we are remembering how to do something rather than the rules of how to. as these memories are automated we find it difficult to describe them e.g reading