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semantic memory
Semantic memory may or may not be abstracted from episodic memory. Episodic memory is associated with remembering, semantic memory with knowing. The relationship between remembering & knowing is embeddedness: remembering always implies knowing, whereas knowing does not imply remembering.
Examples of semantic memory:
1) knowing that grass is green
2) knowing the color of your 1st car
3) knowing how many days there are in a year
General
declarative (explicit) memory