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Episodic (Tulving)
event or episode, personal experience |
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Semantic (Tulving)
general knowledge, facts, concepts, ideas |
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| The distinction between episodic and semantic memory |
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| What is the difference in retrieval of memory from the two systems? |
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Episodic is temporal where it is a question of when. Semantic is more of a question of what and comes from a general knowledge base. It also has to do with the meaning and its relationship to other knowledge. |
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| He uses amnesia as an example of how the two systems are separate. With amnesia you retain the semantic system while losing parts of the episodic. |
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| Properties and facts stored at the highest level. |
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| It is the idea that knowledge is like a web of interconnected information. A node or piece of information connects by pointers. |
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| The higher node on the hierarchy of semantic knowledge. |
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| The more detailed or lower node on the hierarchy. |
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| Collins and Quillan (1969) |
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| They came up with the Hierarchial Semantic Network Model of Smantic Memory. They theorized the farther away a node is then the longer it will take to recognize,identify, or verify. |
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| Conflicting results of Hierarchy for Sematic Memory |
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same action at different levels: problem of cognitive economy-
“a shark can move”, “a fish can move”, or “an animal can move”
problem of hierarchy-
“a pig is an animal” vs. “a pig is a mammal”
the typicality effect (Rips et al., 1973): problem of hierarchy-
“a robin is a bird” vs. “a turkey is a bird” |
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