M: Lesson 7: Types of long term memory Flashcards
What are the 3 types of long term memory?
Episodic, Semantic, Procedural
What is episodic memory?
Memory of significance
What is semantic memory?
Knowledge, Facts, Relationships
What is procedural memory?
Skills, actions, motor skills
What does explicit and implicit long term memory mean?
- Explicit (Conscious)(Episodic and Semantic)
- Implicit (Unconscious) (Procedural)
- All episodic memories stem to semantic memories)
What do you store in episodic memory?
- Personal experiences
- Events
- You will remember details, context and emotions of the event
Where is episodic memory stored?
hippocampus
What do you store in semantic memory?
- Memory of knowledge of the world
- Knowledge of how to behave in certain situations
- Start off as episodic memories and we transfer these so they are more generalised
Where is episodic memory stored?
Stored in Temporal lobe of the brain.
Where is procedural memory stored?
- Motor skills
- Automatic, not conscious inspection
- This allows us to focus our attention on other tasks while carrying out these everyday skills
- Stored in the cerebellum
Where is procedural memory stored?
- Motor skills
- Automatic, not conscious inspection
- This allows us to focus our attention on other tasks while carrying out these everyday skills
- Stored in the cerebellum
Positive evaluation for types of long term memory.
- Evidence has come from patients with amnesia. Typically, they are unable to store new episodic or semantic memories, but their procedural memory appears to be largely unaffected
- Scientific evidence captured from brain scans supports the view that there are different types of LTM. When asking patients to recall different types of information, different parts of the brain can be seen being used on the fMRI.
- Case studies offer support of different types of LTM e.g Cliver wearing damaged his hippocampus, so he has no episodic memory and cannot form new semantic memories, while his procedural memory is intact.
Negative Evaluation
Research into different types of LTM have typically been conducted on individual patients. While case studies are highly detailed and provide a lot of information, they are isolated cases of the individual. It would be inaccurate and inappropriate to assume that everyones LTM is formed int the same way. Findings cannot be generalised.
