What Happens To Episodic And Semantic Memories As Time Passes?
For example, consider the following situation: A friend introduces you to Roger at the coffee shop on Monday, and you talk briefly. Then later in the week, you see Roger across the street. Some possible reactions to seeing Roger are:
That person looks familiar. Where did I meet him? There’s Roger. Where did I meet him? There’s Roger, who I met at the coffee shop last Monday. We talked about the weather.
Remember/Know Task
In the remember/know procedure, subjects are presented with a stimulus they have encountered before and are asked to respond (1) remember if the stimulus is familiar and they also remember the circumstances under which they originally encountered it; (2) know if the stimulus seems familiar but they don’t remember experiencing it earlier; or (3) don’t know if they don’t remember the stimulus at all.
In which subjects are asked to remember lists of stimuli, and has also been used to measure people’s memory for actual events from the past. This procedure is important because it distinguishes between the episodic components of memory (indicated by a remember response) and semantic components (indicated by a know response)
