types of long term memory

Question 1

outline procedural memory

Answer 1

• memories for motor (movement) skills and actions
• KNOWING HOW
• non-declaritive = hard to describe
• unconscious

Question 2

outline episodic memory

Answer 2

• memories relating to a specific episode or event that happened in your life, have a particular time or place
• KNOWING THAT
• declarative
• conscious

Question 3

outline semantic memory

Answer 3

• relates to meaning, no time or place and non-personal
• KNOWING THAT
• declarative
• conscious

Question 4

supporting evidence

Answer 4

• Tulving et al = when Ps thought of different kinds of memories, different areas of the brain were active
• HM = could improve procedural memory of tracing a star while looking in reflection, shows that he could form procedural memory, BUT couldn’t remember ever doing it before demonstrating different types of LTM
• Clive Wearing = procedural memory intact but episodic and semantic severely impaired

Question 5

limitations of types of LTM

Answer 5

• supporting research is mostly case studies/idiographic and so can’t generalise to wider population - lacks population validity