Types Of Long Term Memory

Question 1

Episodic

Answer 1

Personal memories
Pre frontal context
Higher level of thinking
Temp lobe

Eg) fave episode of TV show

Question 2

Semantic

Answer 2

Facts taken independent of context
General knowledge
Hippocampus
Temp lobe

Eg) 2+2
Behaviour in places

Question 3

Procedural

Answer 3

Motor skills
Performing action without conscious awareness
Basal ganglia
Cerebellum

Eg) tying shoe lace

Question 4

Hippocampus

Answer 4

Learning new memories

Question 5

Temp lobe

Answer 5

Storing memories identification

Question 6

Basal ganglia

Answer 6

How body moves and learns

Question 7

Cerebellum

Answer 7

Timing and coordination

Question 8

Strength of types of LTM

Answer 8

HM and CW
-episodic memory damaged but others find
Played piano but couldn’t remember last seeing someone

Real life application

Evidence for neuroimaging - types of memory stored in certain parts of brain

Question 9

Weakness of LTM

Answer 9

Case studies difficult to control
Often biased
Using it as evidence is not completely reliable

Question 10

Information not available to conscious inspection refers to?

Answer 10

Procedural memory