Tulving’s main idea:
LTM is a multipart system made up of 2 or more components containing different types of information.
Episodic memories:
Memories about personal experiences and events for our lives
Require a conscious effort to recall info
Strength of memory depends an emotion present at time it is coded.
Time stamped-remember when they happened.
Semantic memories:
Facts about general knowledge and is always being added to it.
Conscious-explicit-effort needed to recall particular fact.
Represents knowledge base for everything you know-
Less personal and is not time stamped.
Procedural memories
Memory for action and motor skills
can be recalled without conscious awareness -> IMPLICIT
Actions occur without needing to recall how they happen
Many formed early in life - involve learning of important motor skills.