Episodic vs Semantic memory

• episodic memory is like a diary. It is the ability to recall events/episodes of our lives, with complexed and "time-stamped" memories.
• episodic memories require conscious effert to recall memories.
• semantic memory is similar to an encyclopaedia and dictionary. It is the knowledge of the world broad facts. understanding of concepts like animals, love and friends. they are not "time-stamped".
• Must make a conscious effort to remember semantic memories.
• time-referencing is memories about event that happened to you are linked to the time in which they occurred.
• spatial referencing relates to where the memory occurred. Only episodic memory is spatially referenced.
• the episodic vs semantic memory theory created by Tulving is the idea that long term memories are episodic or semantic with different properties.
• (strength of episodic vs semantic memory) Application- eyewitnesses could be taken back to the scene of the crime. Suggesting the knowledge of the episodic memory used to improve the accuracy of eyewitness accounts.
• (weakness of episodic vs semantic memory) Reductionist- The idea that we have separate stores for episodic and semantic memories may be oversimplified.