Types of Long Term Memory Flashcards
What are the 3 types of LTM?
Episodic, Semantic and procedural
Explain Episodic
Describes memories with a personal meaning to us, alongside details when the event occured as well as being associated with a person or place
What is an example of an episodic memory
A wedding
Explain Semantic
Describes our memories of the world associated with. knowledge
What is an example of a Semantic memories?
The ability to recall knowledge consciously - Like London being the capital city
Explain Procedural
Describes our memories of learned skills
Give an example of procedural memories
The ability to swim
What has to be Called consciously?
Episodic and semantic
What can be recalled unconsciously?
Procedural
Give a + (Peterson)
Peterson demonstrated semantic memories were recalled from the left prefrontal cortex, while episodic memories were from the right prefrontal cortex. This supports the idea of having different types of LTM, but shows they have different neurological bias because they’re recalled from different parts of the brain
Give a + (DEC and PRO)
There’s a distinction between declarative and procedural has come from patients with amnesia. Amnesic patients have great difficulty retaining episodic and semantic information following the onset of amnesia
Give a + (HM and Clive)
HM and Clive Wearing show how 1 type of LTM is impaired. For example, Clive was still Able to skilfully play the piano and understand music (Procedural and Semantic), but couldn’t remember his wife visiting 5 minutes before. Giving strong support to the idea different areas of the brain are involved in different types of LTM and confirms the classification of the different types
