Hello Professor and classmates,
The episodic memory typically focuses on your memories events that happened to you personally; it allows you to travel backward in subjective time to reminisce about earlier episodes in your life (Matlin, 2012). This can include your memory for something that occurred more then 10 years ago. An example of an episodic memory would be something such as the 9/11 attacks. Where you were and whom you were around when you learned of what had happened. The episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience. During the 9/11 attacks many people were surrounded by different people and in different areas which will make the memory of the event different. I was in middle school but my older sisters were out of school and working.
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The semantic memory refers to a portion of long term memory that processes thoughts and ideas that are not drawn from individual experience. The semantic memory incorporates things that are regular information, for example, the names of colors, the sounds of letters, the capitals of nations and other fundamental certainties procured over a lifetime. For example knowing that Washington, D.C., is the U.S. capital and Washington is a state. The Semantic memory is the recollection of facts gathered from our younger ages. This would be unquestionable information that would not be associated with emotion or personal experience. Knowing that Washington, D.C., being the capital of the U.S. and that Washington is a state would be the facts and unquestionable information that would not be associated with emotion or personal