Psychology / Unit 6: Memory and Thinking
6.2 Types of Long-Term Memory
Notes
- Explicit (declarative) memory is conscious recall. It has two types: episodic (personal events, like your last birthday) and semantic (facts, like the capital of France).
- Implicit (nondeclarative) memory is not consciously recalled. It includes procedural memory (skills like riding a bike) and priming (earlier exposure influencing later responses).
- Memory is built in the brain by long-term potentiation: stronger connections between neurons through repeated activation.
- The hippocampus helps form explicit memories; the cerebellum helps with procedural memory; the amygdala adds emotional strength.
Practice
Remembering how to tie your shoes without thinking is an example of:
Skills and habits are procedural, a type of implicit memory.
Knowing that Paris is the capital of France is an example of:
Semantic memory stores general facts.
Mia remembers where she was and what she felt on her first day of high school. This is:
Episodic memory holds personal experiences.
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