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Types of long term memory (Tulving 1972) - Coggle Diagram
Types of long term memory (Tulving 1972)
Procedural memory
Part of the long term memory responsible for knowing how to do things (riding a bike).
Does Not involve conscious thought
Unlikely to decay
Semantic memory
Responsible for storing information about the world. Factual.
General knowledge and meanings behind words
Likely to decay
Conscious thought
Episodic memory
Storing information about events that we experienced in our lives
Conscious thought about events in time and place
"Time-stamped" events
Comparions
Procedural + Semantic
Procedural take much longer to learn
Semantic memories are conscious whereas procedural are Unconscious
Semantic memories are declaritive
Procedural + Episodic
Procedural are more resistant to decay
Episodic are declarative
Episodic + Semantic
Both are available for conscious inspection
Both are declaritive
Episodic memories are time-stamped
Semantic memories are less prone to distortion