TYPES OF LTM Flashcards
what type of evidence is there to support the types of LTM?
clinical evidence
what is an example of clinical evidence?
clive wearing
what happened to clive wearing?
his semantic and procedural memories were not affected
what does clinical evidence support?
Tulving who said identified the diff types of LTM
what are the different types of memory according to Tulving?
they are different and stored in different places
how can clinical evidence to support LTM be counteracted?
cases such as clive wearing are not generalisable as they are extreme and have confounding variables
what are confounding variables that clive could’ve gone trhough?
trauma from the brain damage that could make him underperform on tasks
there is _____imaging evidence to support the diff store in LTM
neuroimaging
what does neuroimaging scan show?
different types of memory being stored in different parts of the brain
where are episodic and semantic memories kept?
in the pre-frontal cortex
the left hemisphere stored the…
semantic memories
the right hemisphere stored the…
episodic memories
why does neuroimaging evidence support Tulving?
because it shows physical reality of diff types of LTM in brain
what does neuroimaging evidence increase?
the credibility of Tulving theory as there is proof of these different types of memory
Tulving’s research into different types of LTM has…
real life application
what does research into the different types of LTM allow?
allows psychologists to target certain areas of memory in order to better people’s lives
who found that episodic memories could be improved in old people with mild cognitive treatment?
Belleville et al
Belleville et al found…
found that episodic memories could be improved in old people with mild cognitive treatment
what happened to ppts in Belleville et al’s research?
performed better on a test of episodic memory than control
episodic memory being most affected by mild cognitive treatment highlights..
the benefit of being able to distinguish between different types of LTM
