Which of the following is not a type of implicit long-term memory?
AClassical conditioning effects
BPriming
CEpisodic memory ✓ Correct
DProcedural memory
Correct answer: (C) Episodic memory
Explanation
Episodic memory is not implicit long-term memory but a form of explicit, declarative memory of personal events.
Classical conditioning effects (A) are implicit long-term memory expressed without awareness.
Priming (B) is implicit memory where prior exposure aids later recognition.
Procedural memory (D) is implicit memory for skills and how to do things.
Explicit memory splits into episodic memory of events and semantic memory of facts.
Endel Tulving drew the distinction between episodic and semantic memory.
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