Memory and Alzheimer's: 7 Stages of Alzheimer's & Symptoms

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Memory is the retention of information over time and it changes through our lifespan, from infancy through adulthood (Santrock 218). There are two types of memory, explicit and implicit.

Explicit memory is memory without conscious recollection-memory of skills and routine. Procedures that are preformed automatically (Santrock 219). Explicit memory helps with things like waking up, getting out of bed and putting on your slippers so your feet don’t feel the cold of the floor. Walking out of your room on the second floor and being able to walk down the hallway and to the left to reach the stairs and making it safely down to the first floor without having to turn the lights on. You know your house “like the palm of your hand” because you walk the same 20 steps down the hallway and to the left every day, you walk up and down the same 16 steps in the stair case more than 3 times everyday. That’s explicit memory, remembering things because you do them not because you were taught to. You don’t walk out of your room and count the steps you take to reach the staircase, one, two three...nineteen, no your brain automatically remembers how long it took you due to “routine.”

Explicit Memory is conscious memory of fact and experiences (Santrock 219). It’s what allows you to remember the score of the soccer game from last weekend, when you team scored a 90th minute goal and how the goal scorer celebrated. You feel happy and excited because watching that celebration reminds you how it felt when you scored the winning goal in the region championship during your senior year of high school. That’s explicit memory, facts and experiences. Explicit memory is divided into Episodic and Semantic. Episodic memory deals with memories of oneself as t...

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...rom right or wrong. Memories make a person.

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