LTM

Question 1

What are the components of the LTM and who suggested this?

Answer 1

Procedural- motor skills, no conscious effort to recall
Semantic- memory for general knowledge/facts, conscious recall, not time stamped
Episodic- personal memories- conscious recall, strength of memory depends on emotion at the time, time stamped
Suggested by Tulving

Question 2

What is Clive Wearing’s case study?

Answer 2

Severe amnesia, can still play piano and remember meanings of words etc
Mainly episodic memory damaged, can remember he has kids but doesn’t know them

Question 3

Strengths of LTM?

Answer 3

Research support- Clive Wearing, shows different parts of LTM, increases validity
Support from neurological studies- Tulving et al (1994) asked ppts to perform tasks while scanned- left side of prefrontal cortex semantic, right for episodic

Question 4

Weaknesses of LTM?

Answer 4

Evidence from brain damaged patients- trauma may change behaviour, reduced validity