types of longterm

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    • who came up with types of long-term memory and why
      endel tulving as he realised that the multi-store model's view of ltm was too simplistic
      so he proposed 3 ltm stores: semantic/ procedural and episodic
    • explain episodic memory
      -refers to our ability to recall events from our lives
      -firstly they are time-stamped: so u remember when they happended and what happened
      -second, ur memory of single episode will include several elements e.g ppl and places
      -third, u have to make conscious effort to recall episodic memories, we do this quickly but we are still aware that we are searching for a memory
    • explain semantic memory
      -our shared knowledge of the world
      -not time-stamped as we usually dont know when we first heard abt a particular thing
      -less personal and more abt facts we share
      -it is less vulnerable to distortions and forgetting than episodic
    • explain procedural
      -our memory for actions, skills ( how we do things )
      -we can recall these without conscious awareness or much effort
      -our ability to do this becomes automatic thru practise
      -these skills are hard to explain to someone else
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