Types Of Long Term Memory

Question 1

What are the different long term memory stores

Answer 1

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 2

What is episodic memory?

Answer 2

Our ability to recall events from our lives
They are time stamped - we know when they took place
They are single memories
We have to make a conscious effort to recall them

Question 3

What is semantic memory

Answer 3

Our knowledge of the world
This includes facts
It is not time stamped
Requires conscious effort to recall

Question 4

What is procedural memory

Answer 4

This is memory for motor actions and skills.
These memories can be recalled without any effort

Question 5

What clinical evidence is there to show the types of long term memory? - Clive

Answer 5

Clive’s episodic memory was impaired as a consequence of amnesia
However his semantic and procedural was intact
For eg he knew how to play piano but couldn’t remember his wedding day

Question 6

How do brain scans provide evidence of the types of LTM

Answer 6

Experimenter tulving got his participants to preform memory tasks while his brain was scanned by a PET scanner.
The episodic and semantic were recalled from the prefrontal cortex in the brain
And procedural memory is linked to the cerebellum

Question 7

What disproves there being 3 different types of memory

Answer 7

Cohen says there is only two. Episodic and semantic memories stores together and is called declarative memory
However procedural are non declarative
Case studies are hard to generalise