LTM

Question 1

Who proposed different types of LTM?

Answer 1

Tulving

Question 2

What are the three types of LTM?

Answer 2

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 3

What is episodic memory?

Answer 3

Ability to recall events
Time stamped - remember when they happened
Single episode includes elements like people, places etc
Conscious effort to recall

Question 4

What is semantic memory?

Answer 4

Knowledge of the world
Meaning of words
Not time stamped
Constantly being added to

Question 5

What is procedural memory?

Answer 5

Actions and skills

Recall without effort or awareness

Question 6

Evaluation - clinical evidence

Answer 6

HM’s episodic memory was impaired
Semantic memory was unaffected
Procedural was intact
Different stores

Question 7

Evaluation - neuroimaging evidence

Answer 7

Brain scan studies
Tulving - pps performed memory tasks
Episodic and semantic recalled from prefrontal cortex
Left - semantic
Right - episodic

Question 8

Evaluation - real life application

Answer 8

Allows psychologists to target certain kinds of memory

Belleville - episodic memory could be improved in older people with cognitive impairment

Question 9

Evaluation - problems with clinical evidence

Answer 9

Can’t control variables e.g what caused the amnesia

What was their memory like before amnesia?

Question 10

Evaluation - three or two types?

Answer 10

Cohen and Squire - episodic and semantic stored together
Declarative memory = E+S
Memories that are consciously recalled
Procedural is non-declarative