Different LTM

Question 1

Evaluation of multi store model

Answer 1

It’s too simplistic

Question 2

Who suggests there 3 types of LMT and what are they

Answer 2

Tulving
- semantic
- procedural
-episodic

Question 3

What is semantic memory

Answer 3

• knowledge of the world eg places , facts
  -not time stamped (don’t know when or how u learnt it)
• conscious effort to recall these facts
• explicit memory

Stored in Frontal lobe

Question 4

What is Episodic memory

Answer 4

-events in your life.
-time stamped know when they happened
- remember details, objects, people
- conscious effort to recall them (explicit memory)

Stored in frontal lobe

Question 5

What is procedural memory

Answer 5

• memory of skills (actions) eg riding a bike
• recall without conscious effort becomes automatic
  -don’t know how to explain how we do it
• implicit

Stored in motor cortex

Question 6

Supporting study

Answer 6

Clive wearing - hippocampus damaged during as he has herpes
Lost ability to form new LTM
- episodic memory damaged (can’t make new ones)
- remembered elements of semantic memory
- completely had procedural memory (piano)

• he can’t convert stm into ltm
  > shows LTM isn’t a unitary store as the multi store model suggests - so it’s too simplistic