Lecture 11.1

Question 1

What are the 2 divisions of LTM?

Answer 1

Declarative and Non-declarative

Question 2

What is Declarative memory?

Answer 2

Knowledge that can be consciously recalled, Hippocamppi dependent
Further broken down into 2 other categories

Question 3

What are the other categories of Declarative memory and who thought this? (2)

Answer 3

Episodic and Semantic

Proposed by Tulving

Question 4

What is non-declarative memory?

Answer 4

Knowledge that is unconsciously recalled and is non hippocampal dependent
Example/. Motor skills

Question 5

What are the other categories of non declarative memory (4)

Answer 5

Procedural memory
Priming (Repetition and Association)- ability to identify stimulus as the result of previous exposure
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning

Question 6

What happened to HM?

Answer 6

Removal of his medial temporal lobe and hippocampi to treat epilepsy
He acquired an inability to acquire new information

Question 7

What was he like after surgery?

Answer 7

Normal working memory
Temporally graded anterograde amnesia
Unable to learn new semantic facts

Question 8

What can we conclude from HM?

Answer 8

That declarative memory is not stored in the MTL

and the MTL is critical for consolidation of new information