Examples Of Episodic Memory

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Episodic memory is a one of the categories of long term memory which consists of a person’s personal experience for instance. I can recall the day I graduated high school, it was 4 years ago at FIU on a Thursday morning. Not only was it humid but my hair kept on frizzing and my makeup was running, so I wasn’t feeling as polished as I should feel on my graduation pictures.

Semantic memory on the other hand contains all of the general knowledge about our world that we have accumulated throughout our existence such as general facts, ideas, meaning and concepts. For instance when I took a geography class we learned that our world consist of seven continents North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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