Evaluation of Tulving (1972)

Question 1

There is neurophysiological evidence to support?

Answer 1

Tulving’s ideas about there being 2 categories of declarative memory in LTM.

Question 2

Dickerson & Eichenbaum (2010) reviewed what is known about episodic memory. What did they conclude?

Answer 2

That there is evidence for there being episodic memory.

Question 3

Tulving gives a lot of detail about?

Answer 3

The 2 stores and the differences between them.

Question 4

Tulving provides evidence, for example?

Answer 4

How retrieval is different for both semantic and episodic memory, and how semantic memories can be ‘created’ using other semantic memories, whereas episodic memories have to be encoded and stored individually.

Question 5

Tulving’s argument is?

Answer 5

Persuasive, thorough and evidenced.

Question 6

Tulving explains the difference between the 2 stores by drawing on examples of everyday uses of memory, to help explain the differences between episodic & semantic memory.

But it seems as if…

Answer 6

… this is about labelling only, not about the actual differences.

Question 7

If we say memory for events along with their time and place are ‘episodic’, and memory for meaning along with rules is ‘semantic’, this is…

Answer 7

… descriptive rather than explanatory.

Question 8

It has been suggested that the medial temporal lobe is for both semantic and episodic memories. What would this suggest?

Answer 8

That there isn’t much evidence for there being separate stores.

Question 9

It is clear that the 2 stores rely on one another, so perhaps?

Answer 9

They aren’t as separate as they are thought to be.