Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Figure 8.2
Types of memory
memory, whereby performances can be elicited without
conscious thought.
The episodic memory system is related to the location or
time of a personally-experienced event; an example would be
the content of a particular training event that this trainee
attended. The semantic memory system is related to facts
that are not based on any personal recollection of episodic
memory. An example would be identifying the pharmaceutical
company with the highest global sales fi gures. The procedural
memory system is related to a skill, such as motor or cognitive
performance; an example would be operating a forklift truck.
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How do these memory systems relate to kinds of training?
Training
per se
includes a paper-and-pencil assessment
(KTA), which consists of recalling information provided in a
particular training event, or else general knowledge such as
the name of the topic that Upton Sinclair published in 1906.
Thus training
per se
engages the declarative memory system,
either episodic or semantic.
Employee qualifi cation involves a SDA that consists of the
trainee independently performing the requisite workplace
