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Memory is a vital aspect of life. However, we all tend to forget. And for some of us the forgetting is more intense coming from selective damage on memory’s different component due to a lot of reasons that range from normal ageing to serious accidents.
How does Memory work?
People are often able to hold information in their mind for a short time interval (named Short Term Memory) but encounter difficulty with holding in mind events that happened a while ago and being able to draw to them in future situations, referred to as Long Term Memory (LTM). LTM is divided to knowing how to do things (procedural/implicit memory) or knowing what, where, when facts of events have happened (Declarative/Explicit memory). Declarative memory has a semantic component that relates to remembering important contextual information or events/facts from our life (graduation from university) and an episodic or autobiographical component that relates to recalling specific details of events as we personally experienced them (example: I know that I met Rogers yesterday but I don’t remember where we went and what we did). Episodic memory (Autobiographical) difficulties might include not being able to remember what one needs/intends to do as taking their medication/ making an important phone call (prospective memory) or what they did recently (retrospective memory). Episodic memory is a fundamental block of being and according to Nelson (1993) it is ‘specific, long-lasting and personal’ relating to one’s self history (p. 8).
If you are interested in episodic/autobiographical memory you might enjoy watching the following video:
How does Memory work?
People are often able to hold information in their mind for a short time interval (named Short Term Memory) but encounter difficulty with holding in mind events that happened a while ago and being able to draw to them in future situations, referred to as Long Term Memory (LTM). LTM is divided to knowing how to do things (procedural/implicit memory) or knowing what, where, when facts of events have happened (Declarative/Explicit memory). Declarative memory has a semantic component that relates to remembering important contextual information or events/facts from our life (graduation from university) and an episodic or autobiographical component that relates to recalling specific details of events as we personally experienced them (example: I know that I met Rogers yesterday but I don’t remember where we went and what we did). Episodic memory (Autobiographical) difficulties might include not being able to remember what one needs/intends to do as taking their medication/ making an important phone call (prospective memory) or what they did recently (retrospective memory). Episodic memory is a fundamental block of being and according to Nelson (1993) it is ‘specific, long-lasting and personal’ relating to one’s self history (p. 8).
If you are interested in episodic/autobiographical memory you might enjoy watching the following video: