LTM

Question 1

What did Tulving state about long term memory?

Answer 1

LTM is a multi-part system
Each components holds different types of info

Question 2

Features of episodic memory

Answer 2

Memory of personal experiences and events

Requires conscious effort to recall info - searching memory

Episodes include people places and objects

Strength of memory depends on emotions at the time

Time-stamped

Question 3

Features of semantic memory

Answer 3

Facts about the world and is always being added to

Requires effort to recall a specific fact

Represents knowledge base of every thing you know

Impersonal and not time stamped

Question 4

Features of procedural memory

Answer 4

Memory for action motor skills
Automatically accessed from memory
No need to recall now they happen
Formed mainly in early life
Often difficult to explain

Question 5

Strengths of Tulving’s theory

Answer 5

Neurolmaging evidence ( tulving et al)
Real life applications ( Belleville et al)
Clinical evidence (Clive wearing)

Question 6

Weakness of Tulving’s theory

Answer 6

Semantic and episodic memories aren’t independent