According to Tulving, the defining property of the experience of episodic memory is that
A) it involves mental time travel.
B) it always corresponds to events from our past that actually happened.
C) it accesses knowledge about the world that does not have to be tied to any specific personal experience.
D) it involves both explicit and implicit memories.

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Tulving's definition of episodic memory includes the concept of "mental time travel," which means the ability to mentally travel back in time and re-experience past events. This is the defining property of episodic memory, separating it from semantic memory, which involves general knowledge about the world without the personal experience aspect. The accuracy or truth of the event is not necessarily a defining aspect of episodic memory. Implicit memory is not explicitly tied to episodic memory.

According to Tulving, the Defining Property of the Experience of Episodic