Types Of Long Term Memory Flashcards
Procedural memory
ao1 = motor or action based memory (how to ride a bike), know how memory. None declarative (hard to put into words so needs a demo)
ao3 = found in frontal lobe, motor cortex
Episodic memory
AO1 = An event (episode) we have lived through e.g first kiss
Declarative - can be put into words
AO3 = found in hippocampus and temporal lobe
Semantic memory
AO1= factual information (know that), general knowledge e.g London is the capital of England, grass is green. Declarative (can be put into words)
AO3= found in the temporal lobe
Declarative
Can be put into words/explained
Non-declarative
Cannot be put into words/explained (requires a demo;
implicit memory
Retention of information unconsciously/effortlessly e.g how to ride a bike
explicit memory
Conscious internal recollection of factual information, experiences or concepts e.g trying to recall an equation for a physics test.
Corkin
-HM learned to mirror draw a star and perfects it over 30 days with psychologists.
- each day he didn’t remember learning it the day before or any time before that.
- he had no semantic or episodic memory
Conclusion: procedural memory is separate to episodic/semantic
Distinguishing between episodic and semantic
- distinguishing episodic and semantic: it has been suggested that episodic memories are the gateway to semantic, we don’t know if semantic memories form independently/ how separate they are.
Use of brain damage people
- Use of brain damage people as evidence is a limitation as we don’t know what they were like before the damage and we are not sure what the structural damage is until they are dead and we can look.
4th type of memory
- There is a belief that there is a 4th type of memory - “priming”. It is an automatic enhanced recognition of specific stimuli and the theory doesn’t explain this.
