Tulving- Episodic and Semantic memory

Question 1

What is Episodic memory?

Answer 1

Your ‘mental diary’. Memories of events in our lives.

Question 2

What is Semantic memory?

Answer 2

Your ‘mental encyclopedia’. Memories are factual in nature (dates, general facts)

Question 3

Evaluative strengths

Answer 3

There is lots of evidence- KC, HM, 10y/o boy.

They are reliable, and produce quantitative and qualitative data.

Question 4

Evaluative weaknesses

Answer 4

Does not take procedural memory into account.
It simply labels the stores without explaining them.
There is no physical proof of the two stores.