types of long-term memory

• Long-term memory is not a single, unitary store. There are potentially many different long-term stores which may be represented by separate brain systems.
• Tulving proposed that there are three different types of long term memory stores.
• Declarative memory (episodic and semantic) are known as explicit memory as it refers to memories which a consciously recalled.
• Procedural memory (implicit memory) and sometimes known as muscle memory, are not consciously recalled.
• The episodic memory recalls events from our lives. These memories are time stamped, so you remember when they happened. You have to make a conscious effort to recall these memories.
• Semantic memory stores knowledge of the world, such as facts. These memories are not time stamped. Semantic is less personal and more about facts, and is constantly being added to.
• Procedural memory is our memory of actions, skills. We recall these without conscious awareness. Muscle memory.