Memory - 02 Types of LTM Episodic, Semantic, Procedural

Question 1

What ate the different types of LTM

Answer 1

semantic
episodic
procedural

Question 2

Who first proposed that LTM was not a single store?

Answer 2

Tulving

Question 3

What is semantic memory?

Answer 3

-knowledge of the world, facts and meaning of things like words
-these memories usually need to be recalled deliberately

Question 4

What are episodic memories?

Answer 4

-personal memories, associations of a particular place or time
-time-stamped
-have to make a conscious effort to recall episodic memories

Question 5

What are procedural memories?

Answer 5

-learning motor skills
-memories for actions or skills
-can be recalled without conscious awareness

Question 6

research support for types of LTM (brain scans)

Answer 6

-different areas of brain active when different LTM are active
-episodic memory hippocampus and frontal lobe
-semantic memory temporal lobe
-procedural memory cerebellum

Question 7

research support for types of LTM (HM)

Answer 7

-ability to form new LTMs affected by destruction of hippocampus
-could still form new procedural memories but not episodic or semantic
-supports idea of different LTM stores

Question 8

weakness of types of LTM (two or three types of LTM)

Answer 8

-Cohen & Squires disagree with Tulving
-agree that procedural memories represent one type of LTM
-BUT argue episodic and semantic memories stored together in one store, declarative memory
-reduces validity of Tulving’s idea of 3 stores of LTM