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11 Implicit Memory: The Thing That's Running Your Life

The Place We Find Ourselves

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The Importance of Implicit Memory in Relationships

When we leave home and set out into the world, we carry within us a storehouse of implicit memories. Those memories tell us what to expect around every bend. Implicit memory is how you know as you look at both paintings, you unconsciously and automatically remember all the Van Gogh paintings that you have seen over the course of your life. Your relationship with your parents wields a disproportionately strong influence on your implicit memory.

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