Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0418 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Explicit and Implicit Memory
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The idea
Long-term memory is explicit, or declarative, covering semantic facts and episodic events, or implicit, covering procedural skills and conditioned responses.
In practice
Knowing a capital city is semantic; remembering a field trip is episodic; riding a bike is procedural.
Where people slip
Implicit memories shape behavior without conscious recall, which is why practiced skills feel automatic.
Your place on the trail
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