Calling all Tipsters:
Question 1: would knowledge of abstract concepts, like 'justice' be
considered semantic (declarative) memory, or nondeclarative memory??
Whereas a concrete concept, like "hat" would be clearly declarative
(semantic).
I started to answer this in class and pretty soon got myself in
an ongoing discussion with myself :-) debating the possible ways to
conceive the answer and told my student I would put it to the wisdom
of tipsters.
Question 2: Are repressed memories of childhood abuse part of the
implicit memory system since they may affect our behavior in novel
ways from the direct explicit retrieval of the information?
This assumes that we accept the validity of repressed memories--and
I admit I believe that while many claims of recovery of repressed
memories may be false memories, I also believe that clearly there is
validity to the repressed memory hypothesis, but we just don't know
how to assess their reality yet.
annette
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of San Diego Voice: (619) 260-4006
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"Education is one of the few things a person
is willing to pay for and not get."
-- W. L. Bryan
