Tulving's LTM

Question 1

Why did Tulving have problem with the long term memory being too simplistic

Answer 1

• Too simplistic
• People have episodic LTM such as remembering a family holiday
• People have semantic memories where we store facts about a topic such as the holiday was in Rome, Italy

Question 2

What is semantic memory?

Answer 2

Refers to facts and knowledge (1) that are like a ‘mental encyclopaedia’ of information (1)