Memory (Edexcel A-Level Psychology): Flashcards

Semantic memory & episodic memory

General knowledge, facts, meanings, concepts about the world

Personal experiences & events from individual's life

Mental encyclopaedia

Mental diary

Independent of/detached from temporal information

Dependent - memories linked to when events occurred

Depends on context/cues encoded at learning

Couldn't recall personal events but could recall facts

Recall twice as effective in same context as learning