Types of LTM

Question 1

what is time stamped

Answer 1

can remember exactly when something occurred/ was learnt

Question 2

who proposed the 3 types

Answer 2

Endel Tulving

Question 3

what are the 3 types

Answer 3

Episodic
semantic
procedural

Question 4

what is episodic memory

Answer 4

refers to the ability to remember events from past

-time -stamped

Question 5

what is semantic memory

Answer 5

refers to factual info/knowledge of world

-not time-stamped

Question 6

what is procedural memory

Answer 6

refers to memory of how we do things (eg. driving)

Question 7

strengths of LTM types

Answer 7

REAL-LIFE APPLICATION
-supporting research
helps to understand memory related problems eg. memory loss
-can help distinguish treatment needed

RELIABILITY

• clinical evidence ( HM ) Henry molaison and Clive Wearing
• episodic memory in these people was severely damaged however semantic memory wasn’t affected
• supports Tulving as shows there are different memory stores in LTM as one could be damaged and one not.

Question 8

Limitations of LTM types

Answer 8

LOW RELIABILITY

• neuroimaging evidence
• conflicting research findings findings that link LTM types to areas of brain
• psychologists found that semantic was on left prefrontal cortex and episodic on right
• however…other research contradicts this showing other way around.
• challenges evidence

Question 9

who is Clive Wearing

Answer 9

• severe amnesia from viral infection attacked brain
• can remember some aspects but not others
• procedual memory= not affected
• episodic memory= damaged