Types of long term memory

Question 1

What is declarative memory

Answer 1

Can be explained
Episodic and semantic memory
Explicit

Question 2

What is non declarative memory

Answer 2

Can’t be explained
Easier to show
Procedural memory
Implicit

Question 3

What did Tulving suggest

Answer 3

MSM view of LTM is too simple

LTM has 3 stores

Question 4

Describe the episodic memory store

Answer 4

Explicit
Personal memories
Complex
Time stamped
Conscious effort to recall

Question 5

Describe semantic memory

Answer 5

Explicit
General knowledge
Not time stamped
Consciously recalled

Question 6

Describe procedural memory

Answer 6

Implicit
How to carry out actions
Recalled automatically(skills are automatic with practise)
Difficult to explain
Easy to show

Question 7

Evaluate Tulvings research on LTM stores

Answer 7

Supporting evidence - Patient HM - Hippocampus removed, couldn’t form episodic or semantic memories but could form procedural memories(tested through mirror drawing)

Too reliant on case studies - difficult to say that a damaged area causes specific problems e.g. area may be acting as a relay

Brain scans show each LTM store is located in different areas - Episodic = hippocampus. Semantic = temporal lobe. Procedural = cerebellum

Nomothetic vs ideographic