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Episodic and Semantic Memory Distinction.
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Episodic and Semantic Memory Distinction Explicit memory requires conscious recall, in other words the information must be called back consciously when it is required. If this information is about our own lives it is called episodic memory.Episodic memory allows a person to decide when, where and under what circumstances they experienced an event. A episodic memory test explicitely requires the participant to retrieve information about an earlier epsiode. If it concerns our general knowledge then it is called semantic memory. Semantic memory refers to conceptual knowlegde, independent of other contexts in which that knowledge was aquired. Semantic memory test can in priciple be performed without the need to retrieve information about any specific learning episode. These two memory systems have been proposed by much evidence to be separate distinct memory stores, Tulving (1972) claims that differences in LTM are due to these distinct differences in episodic and semantic memory, such that...
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