Cognitive Approach

Cognitive Approach: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding though, experience, and the senses

Types of Memory

Memory is the process by which information is encoded, stored and retrieved

Episodic memory contains the memory of specific events that have occurred at a given time and place

Semantic memory refers to general knowledge of facts and people that isn't linked to a time and place

Procedural memory is the unconscious memory of skills and how to do things

Declarative memory is the memory of facts and events referring to those memories that can be consciously recalled