Episodic and Semantic Memory- Tulving Flashcards

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Episodic memory

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  • autobiographical (memories about individual)
  • receives and stores information personal to individual
  • encoded in time and space
  • mental diary
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Godden and Baddeley

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  • scuba divers learned and recalled list of words underwater or land, performed twice as well when learning and recalling in same context as where it was learnt
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Semantic memory

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  • cognitive (giving meaning to words and symbols)
  • needed for words as words have meanings and meanings must be encoded, stored and retrieved.
  • mental encyclopaedia
  • memory trace more rebust
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Supporting evidence

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  • case studies of KF, following serious motorbike accident, suffered specific long term memory impairment to his episodic memory resulting in inability to form or recall many personal events however he still remembered factual information
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Refuting evidence

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  • Henry Molaison - inabilty to retain and recall long-term memory from episodic storage however was able to perform tasks and learn new skills. Remembering practised skills known as procedural memory
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