Human Memory — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyHuman Memory3 Marks
Question
Differentiate between episodic and semantic memory.
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Answer
The difference between episodic and semantic memory are following:Episodic memory:
It contains biographical details of our life.
Memories relating to our personal life experiences constitute the episodic memory, and it is for this reasons that its contents are emotional in nature.
It includes memories such as how did you feel when you stood first in your class? Or how angry was your friend and what did she say when you did not fulfill a promise?
Such experiences are hard to forget, yet it is true that many events take place continuously in our lives and that we do not remember all of them.
Semantic memory:
It is the memory of general awareness and knowledge.
All concepts, ideals and rules of logic are stored in semantic memory.
Because of semantic memory we remember the meaning of say "non-violence" or remember that 2 + 6 = 8.
Unlike episodic memory this kind of memory is not dated. We perhaps will not be able to tell when we learnt the meaning of non-violence.
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