2.4 Types of long-term memory

Question 1

What is episodic memory?

Answer 1

Personal memories of events. This kind of memory includes contextual details plus emotional tone

Question 2

what is procedural memory?

Answer 2

Memory for how to do things. These are automatic as the result of repeated practise

Question 3

What is semantic memory?

Answer 3

Shared memories for facts and knowledge

Question 4

Summarise the types of LTM

Answer 4

-Episodic memories - personal memories for events
forming a sequence - include details of context and
emotion
- Semantic memories - shared memories of facts and
knowledge - acquired via episodic memories
- Procedural memories - knowing how to do something - become automatic after repetition

Question 5

Evaluate the types of LTM

Answer 5

• Episodic memories are associated with temporal lobe (including hippocampus) plus frontal lobe
• Semantic memory associated with temporal lobe
• procedural memory associated with cerebellum and basal ganglia and limbic system
• HM new procedural memories can be formed but not semantic or episodic ones
• Evidence from amnesia patients - semantic memories can form independently of episodic memories
• brain damage evidence unreliable because can’t be certain that causal part of brain identified
• perceptual representation system may be a kind of implicit memory related to priming

Question 6

What is priming

Answer 6

Priming describes how implicit memories influence the responses a person makes to a stimulus.
(Eg. if a person is given a list of words containing “yellow” they are more likely to say “banana when asked to name a fruit)