1.3. Types Of Long Term Memory Flashcards
What are episodic memories?
- Events or episodes you have personally experienced
- They’re declarative
What are episodic memories linked to?
Time, place, context, emotion
What is an example of an episodic memory?
GCSE results day
First kiss
16th birtbday
What is a semantic memory?
- Facts, knowledge of the world (shared by all)
- Declarative
What is an example of a semantic memory?
London is the capital of England
What is a procedural memory?
- Action or motor/skill based
- Non-declarative
What is an example of a procedural memory?
How to swim
How to ride a bike
Which two types of memory are closely linked?
Episodic and semantic
Strength: scanning techniques
Scanning techniques show different locations for memory so they must be separate
- Episodic: hippocampus and temporal lobe
- Semantic: temporal lobe
- Procedural: motor cortex
Strength: Corkin
+ HM mirror drawing task
+ Corkin worked with HM (hippocampus removed) everyday on a mirror drawing -> drawing a strat in between two stars looking in a mirror
+ After a month he could do it properly but had no recollection -> he had to be practising for a month
+ Suggests you can make procedural memories without episodic and semantic memories
Weakness: gateway
- It has been suggested that episodic memories are the gateway to semantic memories
- We don’t know whether semantic memories form on their own - we don’t know how separate the two memories are
Weakness: brain damage patients
- We don’t know what brain damage patients were like before the damage and we don’t know structural damage until they’re dead
Weakness: 4th type of memory
- Priming
- Explains how implicit memories influence responses a person makes to a stimulus (if you are primed to give a response you give it automatically)
