Making Memories Worksheet Directions: Read through each scenario. Identify if the memory is Implicit or Explicit. Then, identify the specific type (i.e. procedural, sensory, short term/working, semantic, or episodic/autobiographical. Story or Anecdote You visited your aunt's house when you were eight years old, and you tell your friend about the time that your fell into her pool. You haven't ridden a bike for several years, when a potential date asks you to out to go on a 20-mile bike ride. You agree, after all, it will be just like riding a bike! It's been years since you last saw your aunt, but when she walks into the house, you are alerted to her presence by the smell of her perfume. While taking the GRE test, you remember how to do most of your high school Algebra. You are solving a mathematical problem in your mind, and as work on it you need to do first some calculations in your head. On your 16th birthday, your parents drove you to a car dealership. Then they pulled out of the parking lot laughing. You are forever traumatized!!! You go to see a concert, and the band plays the entire set without once looking at a piece of sheet music. What type of memory are they using? You need to remember the phone number that someone on the phone just read to you until you can hang up and type it into your phone. You continuously repeat the number to yourself. While playing a game of Trivial Pursuit on New Year's Eve, you remember that John Adams was the second president of the United States. You drive all the way to school, and then realize that you don't remember a single thing about how you got there. Implicit or Explicit Type of Memory