LTM evaluation Flashcards
1
Q
supporting evidence
A
- case study of clive wearing
- had retrograde amnesia
- cant remember musical education (episodic memory)
- remembers facts about his life (semantic memory)
- remembers how to play piano (procedural memory)
- cannot encode new semantic or episodic memories
- but can form new procedural memories
2
Q
limitation of supporting evidence
A
- difficult to generalise
- his brain damage may be more extensive than previously thought
- idiographic data and case studies by nature are unrepresentative
- only studying one persons memory cant be sure the stores work the same in everyone
- weak supporting evidence
3
Q
fMRI scans
A
- tulving used fMRI scanning to study brain and ideas gained from idiographic research using nomothetic methods
- on a healthy patient
- saw different areas of the brain activated during recall of different LTM forms
4
Q
similarity between LTM types
A
- LTM stores are not truly distinct
- episodic memory becomes semantic overtime
- link between procedural and semantic memory eg being able to talk fluently about semantic concepts
- suggests stores arent truly separate as theory suggests
