Semantic learning is the rule-based kind of learning we take away from an experience or from informational resources such as a lecture, an explanation, or a set of directions. Semantic learning gets a real workout in the school setting. Episodic learning is highly sensory, and we tend to remember the experience in terms of its sound, feel, taste, smell, texture, or visual images. If you spend a leisurely afternoon baking cookies with a child, he’s likely to remember the way the heat from the oven fogged the kitchen window or the touch, smell, and taste of the cookies far more vividly than the
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