Which long-term memory distinction separates memory for facts from memory for skills like riding a bicycle?
AImplicit memory for facts and explicit memory for skills
BEpisodic memory for facts and semantic memory for skills
CDeclarative memory for facts and procedural memory for skills
DFlashbulb memory for facts and autobiographical memory for skills
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Declarative memory for facts and procedural memory for skills
1. The chapter gives one major classification within LTM as declarative versus procedural.
2. Declarative memory holds facts, names and dates, amenable to verbal description.
3. Procedural memory holds skills like riding a bicycle, hard to narrate.
4. Distractor 2 mislabels the fact-versus-skill axis with Tulving's episodic-semantic terminology.
5. Hence facts versus skills maps to declarative versus procedural.
_Source: NCERT Class 11 Psychology Ch 6 "Human Memory", pp. 100-101, Types of Long-term Memory_
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