Types of Long Term Memory

Question 1

What is a strength of types of LTM regarding supporting evidence?

Answer 1

Cases of HM and Clive Wearing
-Episodic memory severely impaired
-semantic memories still intact (meanings of words)
-Procedural intact (Clive could still play piano)

Question 2

How can the clinical evidence regarding types of long term memory (HM, Clive) be criticised?

Answer 2

-Lacks control of variables as unexpected incident
-do not know what the individuals memory was like prior to the accident

Question 3

How can types of long term memory have real world application?

Answer 3

-Understand people with memory problems e.g old people
-As we age, recent epsiodic memories become harder to recall
-Bellievere et al. found trained pps had better episodic memory after test