Types of Long Term Memory

Question 1

Types of Long term memory

Answer 1

Episodic
- personal events , events & people , objects involved. e.g a dentist visit.

Semantic
- knowledge of facts / the world , concepts. e.g capital city of germany.

Procedural
- knowledge of actions and skills & no effort. e.g how to ride a bike.

Question 2

differences in LTM

Answer 2

episodic
-knowing that / susceptible to loss / stored with reference to time.

semantic
- knowing that / susceptible to loss / no reference to time learnt.

procedural
- knowing how / resistant to forgetting / no reference to time learnt.

Question 3

explain tulvings 1989 study into types of LTM

Answer 3

• 6p’s/ radioactive gold detected with gamma ray detector / thought about semantic memories e.g ideas from a book or episodic memories like school / think about topic , 60 secs later injected , scanned 8 secs later.
• two tasks provided blood flow , episodic = frontal lobes of cortex , semantic = posterior region.
• different parts of the brain so much be separate in LTM

Question 4

evaluation of types of LTM

Answer 4

• lab experiment (high control)
• castle study (clive wearing)
• low internal validity
• low sample size