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Explicit Memory

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The act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences

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Implicit Memory

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Influence of past experiences on later behaviour, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of their recollection

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Procedural Memory

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Gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice or “knowing how” to do things

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Priming

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Enhanced ability to think of a stimulus as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus; less cortical activation (perceptual and conceptual priming)

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Semantic Memory

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Network of associated facts words items of knowledge, data, and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world.

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Episodic Memory

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Collections of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place

(Also involves mental time travel)

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Collaborative Memory

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How people share in groups

Sharing memories with others can strengthen them, but can also produce retrieval-inducing forgetting

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Divergent Creative Thinking

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Generating creative ideas by combining different types of information in new ways

How many uses can you come up with for a brick?

Similar to critical thinking/ abandoning preconceptions and using what you know to come up with something new

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How does Episodic Memory relate to the imagining the future?

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The hippocampus shows similarly increased activity when people remember the past and imagine the future

These two different mental states activate are associated with common brain networks

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Which part of the brain plays an important role in the development of episodic memories?

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Hippocampus; which is located in the medial temporal lobe

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What type of memory do we rely on to envision potential futures?

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Episodic

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What part of the brain does Perceptual Priming involve?

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Visual Cortex (back of brain)

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What part of the brain does Conceptual Priming involve?

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Frontal Lobes

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Evidence suggests the Conceptual and Perceptual priming each correlate to which hemisphere’s of the brain?

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Conceptual : Left

Perceptual : Right

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