Types Of Long Term Memory

Question 1

Who proposed three different LTM stores?

Answer 1

Tulving (1985).

Question 2

Answer 2

Question 3

What are the three LTM stores?

Answer 3

-Procedural memory.
-Semantic memory.
-Episodic memory.

Question 4

What is procedural memory?

Answer 4

LTM store of actions, skills (how we do things).

Question 5

What is semantic memory?

Answer 5

LTM store of knowledge of the world (like an encyclopaedia).

Question 6

What is episodic memory?

Answer 6

LTM store of the ability to recall events.

Question 7

What are the features of procedural memory?

Answer 7

-NOT time-stamped.
-Can be recalled WITHOUT conscious awareness.

Question 8

What are the features of semantic memory?

Answer 8

-NOT time-stamped.
-Have to deliberately recall these events.

Question 9

What are the features of episodic memory?

Answer 9

-Time-stamped.
-You have to make a conscious effort to recall them.

Question 10

What are evaluation points for types of long term memory?

Answer 10

-Evidence from brain scans:
•Episodic: hippocampus.
•Semantic: temporal lobe.
•Procedural: cerebellum.
-After surgery, HM could form procedural memories, but not semantic or episodic memories.
-Case studies can’t be generalised to the population (individual differences).