Memory-types Of Ltm

Question 1

What are episodic memories-

Answer 1

Personal memories of events occurring as part of larger sequence including contextual detail and emotional tone

Question 2

Procedural memory?

What happens if conscious attention is paid?

Answer 2

Memory for how to do things which are automatic as a result of repeated practice

Lost focus/disruption

Question 3

Semantic memory?

How do they downtime begin

Answer 3

Shared memories for facts and knowledge
(E.g. Functions of objects, appropriate behaviour)

May begin as episodic memories as we squire knowledge bass on personal experiences

Then faces gradual transition to become more generalised

Question 4

Evaluation

+Brain scans
Different brain areas active during different LTM activity

Episodic memory activates…

Semantic activates…

Procedural activates…

Answer 4

Episodic memory activates…Hippocampus

Semantic activates…Temporal Lobe

Procedural activates… Cerebellum

Question 5

Evaluation-
Support for 3 types of memory-

HM findings were simplified

What did Corkin 2002 discover about HM?

What did he have no memory of?

Answer 5

Could learn mirror drawing hence procedural memory was intact

HM couldn’t remember the learning skills (episodic/semantic)