CONGITIVE episodic and semantic Flashcards
1
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who created the theory
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Tulving
2
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define episodic memory
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- recieves and stores information about past experiences and events at specific times - autobiographical in nature
3
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what parts of the brain are linked to episodic memory
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frontal lobe and hippocampus
4
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what is episodic memory dependent on
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- time-referencing memories about events
- context when the memory was learnt/ experienced (aids retrieval)
- semantic memory - need to draw up on knowledge to understand it
5
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what did Tulving state about epsiodic memory (memory trace)
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memory can transform during retrieval - so the memory trace may change
6
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examples of epsiodic memory
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first day of school or remembering your 16th birthday
7
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define semantic memory
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memory of meanings and words - knowledge
8
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what part of the brain is linked to semantic memory
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temporal lobe
9
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is the semantic memory dependent on anything
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no
10
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examples of the semantic memory
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grass is green - how to use a phone
11
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positive evaluation points
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- credibility - brain scans how increased activity in the temporal lobe when semantic memories are recalled - obejective evidence of different stores
- supporting evidence - Irish et al (2011) - Alzheimer patients - remembered episodic but not semantic e.g. taking medication
- supporting evidence - patient HM - hippocampus removed and damaged temporal lobe - can’t make new LTM (epsiodic and semantic) - links between specific areas of the brain
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negative evaluation points
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- reductionist - isolates two main parts - no metion of procedural - ignores presence of STM to LTM
- credibility - semantic and epsiodic difficut to seperate - words can have semantic meaning and epsiodic meaning - impossible to determine whether a person is using only one type of these memories
- refuting evidence - Squire and Zola (1998) children and adults with amnesia - both semantic and episodic impaired - suggests two types of memory are linked
