Episodic Memory

Sensory memory is the shortest memory in the human brain in terms of duration. Your sense of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell are inputs of the sensory memory. Due to the amount of information that is bombarded by the human brain during this process the brain picks what out what to pay attention to and processed into your sensory memory and the rest is lost forever. The information is then transferred to the short-term memory (working memory) can remember up to 7+/- 2 items of information to remember. The working memory is responsible for reasoning and decision-making. However, the amount of information that is held within the working memory is depending on age and complexity of information being remembered. For an example, a chess master
For example, when people repeating a new phone number they are trying to remember the new number by rehearsing it, which will keep it in their working memory longer.
Information that is rehearsed is then encoded into the long-term memory Long Tern memory is much larger than working memory and is divided into three types of memories: episodic, semantic and procedural memories. The differences of episodic and semantic memories are episodic memories has memories of specific events that from personal life experience. The typically memories that may be stored in the episodic memory for example is personal facts, general events and memories that appears in flashes when reminded of a special event. Semantic memory are the memories of general knowledge about the world this includes facts, concepts and ideas. For example, knowing that baseball is a sport, knowing who was the president the year you got married or the capitals of states. Procedural memory takes time to be mastered and become automatic. For a person to place a set of tasks into the procedural memory of long-term memory. A person must practice and make associations with each step of the individual task. A person learning must read