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1947 or a frog is an amphibian or you and Episodic memory contains biographical your friend share the same name, are part of details of our lives. Memories relating to our declarative memory. Procedural memory, on personal life experiences constitute the the other hand, refers to memories relating to episodic memory and it is for this reason that procedures for accomplishing various tasks its contents are generally emotional in nature. and skills such as how to ride a bicycle, how How did you feel when you stood first in your to make tea or play basketball. Facts retained class? Or how angry was your friend and what in the declarative memory are amenable to did s/he say when you did not fulfil a promise? verbal descriptions while contents of If such incidents did actually happen in your procedural memory cannot be described life, you perhaps will be able to answer these easily. For example, when asked you can questions with reasonable accuracy. Although describe how the game of cricket is played but such experiences are hard to forget, yet it is if someone asks you how do you ride a bicycle, equally true that many events take place you may find it difficult to narrate. continuously in our lives and that we do not Tulving has proposed yet another remember all of them. Besides, there are classification and has suggested that the painful and unpleasant experiences which are declarative memory can either be Episodic or not remembered in as much detail as pleasant Semantic. life experiences. Box 6.2 Long-term Memory Classification The study of memory is a fascinating field and events contribute to it. During old age, the most recent researchers have reported many new phenomena. years of life are likely to be well remembered. However, The following phenomena show the complex and before this, around 30 years of age, decline in certain dynamic nature of human memory. kinds of memory starts. Flashbulb Memories : These are memories of Implicit Memory : Recent studies have indicated events that are very arousing or surprising. Suchthat many of the memories remain outside the memories are very detailed. They are like a photoconscious awareness of a person. Implicit memory is taken with an advanced model camera. You can a kind of memory that a person is not aware of. It is push the button, and after one minute you have a a memory that is retrieved automatically. One recreation of the scene. You can look at the interesting example of implicit memory comes from photograph whenever you want. Flashbulb the experience of typing. If someone knows typing memories are like images frozen in memory and that means s/he also knows the particular letters tied to particular places, dates, and times. on the keyboard. But many typists cannot correctly Perhaps, people put in greater effort in the label blank keys in a drawing of a keyboard. Implicit formation of these memories, and highlighting memories lie outside the boundaries of awareness. details might lead to deeper levels of processingIn other words, we are not conscious of the fact that as well as offer more cues for retrieval. a memory or record of a given experience exists. Autobiographical Memory : These are personal Nevertheless, implicit memories do influence our memories. They are not distributed evenly behaviour. This kind of memory was found in patients throughout our lives. Some periods in our lives suffering from brain injuries. They were presented a producemorememoriesthanothers.Forinstance, list of common words. A few minutes later the patient no memories are reported pertaining to early was asked to recall words from the list. No memory childhood particularly during the first 4 to 5 years.shown for the words. However, if s/he was prompted to say a word that begins with these letters This is calledchildhood amnesia . There is a dramatic increase in the frequency of memories and two letters are given, the patient was able to just after early adulthood, i.e. in the twenties.recall words. Implicit memories are also observed in Perhaps emotionality, novelty, and importance of people with normal memories. 101 Chapter 6 • Human Memory Reprint 2026-27