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Laura vividly remembers her high school graduation, an example of _____ memory, but has forgotten the meaning of the term "photosynthesis," a failure of _____ memory

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Laura vividly remembers her high school graduation, an example of declarative memory, but has forgotten the meaning of the term "photosynthesis," a failure of explicit

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episodic; semantic

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Episodic memory represents our memory o specific events, seasons in a serial manner, experiences over a time period, from which we can replay the actual events that took place at any given point in our lives. It is the memory of autobiographical events (places, associated emotions, times and other contextual knowledge) that can be played back in detail people with this type of memory tend to see themselves as actors in these events, and the emotional charge and the entire context surrounding an event is usually part of the memory, not just the bare facts of the event itself.

Laura remembered this special occassion of her high school graduation.

Semantic memory It refers to general factual knowledge, shared with others and independent of any kind of special experience in which it was acquired. Semantic memories may once have had a personal context, but now stand alone as simple knowledge. It, therefore, comprises such things as types of food, capital cities, social customs, functions of objects, vocabulary, understanding of mathematics, etc. Much of semantic memory is abstract and relational and is associated with the meaning of verbal symbols. As in the case of Laura forgetting the meaning of photosynthesis

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