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Name: Hee Ra Chung
Date: 21.01.2015

From patients who suffer amnesia, psychologists are able to prove that our memory system does not only operate in a single consciousness. Explicit memory, also called declarative memory, is when one is able to consciously retrieve a memory; whereas, implicit memory, also called procedural memory, is part of a conditioning effect in which a person can learn how to do something without awareness. An amnesia victim who cannot form new memories from a certain time may not be able to remember how to play a game that one learned recently. But if the victim is constantly exposed to the rules of the game, he or she will be quicker in understanding the game. Though the frontal and temporal lobe of the brain are generally used, the hippocampus is rather considered as the more crucial for storing explicit memories. On the other hand, implicit memory often relies on the cerebellum, which is responsible for storing memories formed under conditioning.

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COMMENT by Mackenzie Jordan Good job with your answer, you explained it very thoroughly. The information that you have to continually work to remember is explicit memory, and things that you know unconsciously is implicit memory. I also read that a lot of scientists have previously focused a lot on explicit memory but are now more interested in implicit memory so there is a lot more research being conducted on it now.

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