Long Term Memory Model (Tulving 1972) Flashcards
Procedural
Knowing how to do things
Memory of motor skills
Not conscious, thought not declarative
E.g. riding a bike
Semantic
Storing info about the world
Meaning of words
Conscious
Declarative
E.g London capital of England
Episodic
Storing info about events experienced in our lives
Involves conscious thought
Declarative
E.g 1st day if school
Clive wearing
Suffered brain damage viral infection 1985
Forgot things in 30 seconds, no episodic memory
Semantic memory, remembered wife was important to him
Procedural memory could play piano
Different memory stores
Kent Cochrane
Motor accident 1981
Could remember dates/ books had semantic memory
Hippocampus destroyed
No episodic memory
Different memory stores
Bahrick
Photos and names of people in graduated class
80 % accurate verbal
70% accurate visual
Verbal - semantic
Visual - episodic
Squire and Zola (1998)
Counter
Examined children with amnesia( no chance to acquire semantic in first place)
Adults w amnesia ( had semantic and episodic prior) participants episodic and semantic equally impaired supported two memory functions are linked
Godden and Baddeley (1974)
Episodic memory jogged by context cues
Divers learnt words underwater
Remembered more when under water than on dry land
Application
Congnitve stimulation therapy
Giving dementia patients activities
Singing semantic songs then asking how they feel