types of long term memory

• attkinsons and shiffrin multi store model of memory can not explain why clive wearing and henry molaison lost some long term memories but not others
• 1973 endel tulving suggested his long term memory model
• according to the tulving model we have more than one long term memory stores
• episodic memory


  memories of events we have experienced
• episodic memory


  may recall time, place and who was there
• semantic memory


  memory of facts, meanings and knowledge that we accumulate in our lives, which may include facts about ourselves
• semantic memory


  memories of facts, knowledge and definitions that we accumulate over life
• semantic and episodic memories are conscious memories
• episodic and semantic memories both declarative memories
• procedural memory


  memories concerned with skills, non-declarative memories, unconscious
• declarative memories


  memories that we can consciously recall out loud
• non-declarative memories


  memories that we can't consciously recall out loud