Going grocery shopping involves a series of mental processes that engage both memory and attention. As you read signs in the store, semantic memory helps you recognize what items are in which aisles.
Semantic Memory: we recall how to use the self
checkout line at the store because it shows us step by
step on what to do
Episodic Memory: Going through a self checkout
line can trigger any type of memory you have
connected.
Filtering: We can go to the self checkout
instead because it's quicker
Grabbing the items you want
Filtering: seeing a certain type of food or snack
that grabs your attention so you decide to pick it up.
Episodic Memory: remembering how when you
were a child you use to run down the aisles grabbing
whatever kind of food you want.
Walking down the aisle
Filtering: Walking down the aisle trying to
decide what kind of food you want to pick up
wither if its something healthy or not, you can
group it like that.
Episodic Memory: when you go grocery shopping
you walk down every aisle like you did when you were
a child, at least I did.
Main topic
Looking for stuff you want
Filtering: you group whatever kind of snack
you want and decide on the kind of snack
or food you're going to get.
Episodic Memory: when you were a child
and you didn't have to go through every
aisle trying to figure out what you want
because you go to the snack section and
just pick from there.
Reading the names of things on
aisle signs
Attention
Episodic Memory: the name of a certain
object might trigger a memory from shopping
with your parents you were a child
Flitering: using the names on the signs
we know what is in the aisle
Memory
Semantic Memory: we remember to read what
is on the signs and realize that what we need is
in that aisle