Types of Long Term Memory

• types of long term memory

  1. Episodic Memory
  2. Semantic Memory
  3. Procedural Memory
• episodic memory

  • a memory of personal experiences with specific details of events
  • Explicit - memories you can easily verbalise
• semantic memory

  A LTM store for the memory of facts, meanings, and concepts - knowledge about the external world
• procedural memory

  • A LTM store of our knowledge of how to do things and involves our memories of learned skills
  • It does not involve conscious thought.
  • Implicit - memories you can't easily verbalise
• Tulving proposed a distinction between episodic, semantic and procedural memory