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Types of Long-Term Memory Explained

This document discusses different types of long-term memory, including semantic memory (general knowledge about the world), procedural memory (how to do things), episodic memory (personal experiences), and declarative memory (facts and events that can be consciously recalled). Each type of memory is defined and examples are provided to illustrate the key differences between the long-term memory categories.

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Types of Long-Term Memory Explained

This document discusses different types of long-term memory, including semantic memory (general knowledge about the world), procedural memory (how to do things), episodic memory (personal experiences), and declarative memory (facts and events that can be consciously recalled). Each type of memory is defined and examples are provided to illustrate the key differences between the long-term memory categories.

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Identification

Example (Type of Long Justification


Term Memory)
Farhan
remembered that
sun is a star and
our planet 1. part of the long-term memory responsible for
i.e. earth revolves storing information about the world
around 2. includes knowledge about the meaning of
the sun. Semantic Memory
words
Furthermore, he 3. general knowledge
has also 4. involves conscious thought and is declarative.
memorized that
humans are
mammals.
Ayesha told her
friends that
she knows how to
cook
food, clean the
1. responsible for knowing how to do things
house and
2. It does not involve conscious 
dish washing. She Procedural Memory
3. is not declarative
told her
friends that she 4. memory of motor skills.
assists her
mother in every
day
household tasks.
Anita told her
1. responsible for storing information about events
friends what
(i.e. episodes) that we have experienced in our
she had for
lives. 
breakfast, the
2. involves conscious thought
drama she saw last Episodic Memory
3. knowledge that we hold in episodic memory
weekend and what
she did focuses on “knowing that” something is the
on her recent case
vacation. 4. a part of the long-term memory
Waheed is fond of
cricket
and wants to adopt
it as a 1. Declarative memory (“knowing what”)
profession. He 2. the memory of facts and events\
knows the 3.  refers to those memories that can be
dates, venues and Declarative Memory consciously recalled (or “declared”)
scores of 4.  sometimes called explicit memory since it
Pakistan team in consists of information that is explicitly stored
recent and retrieved
world cup.

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