Question

Ruben and Maya are describing their recent trip. They describe all the interesting things they did while they were there and all the interesting people that they met. In describing their trip, Ruben and Maya are largely relying on their​:
a. semantic memory.
b. episodic memory.
c. procedural memory.
d. prospective memory.

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter B

Episodic memory is divided into anterograde and retrograde. Anterograde memory consists of our ability to consolidate new memories from a point, while the retrograde consists of remembering experiences that happened earlier in our life. To illustrate the whole process of declarative memory, let us return to the situation of the vacation trip. Telling a friend about the trip to a certain place is a good example of the use of semantic memory, but the episodic fits in this example when you want to tell, for example, how the trip was on the first days of vacation.

Let's say it was raining, which made it impossible to go to the beach as planned. Then, through semantic memory, what happened is expressed, but episodic allows us to evoke what happened at a given time and place of the trip. Still in this example of the trip, the retrograde memory would enter as the capacity to evoke facts that had occurred previously. For example, a friend's suggestion when recommending taking the trip at a certain time of the year or visiting a specific place. While the antegrade would be all over again during the trip, which would now be considered past time, since it is being told to someone.