Types Of LTM

Question 1

Episodic memory

Answer 1

• episodes of your past
  -personal memories of events and experiences
  -may recall the time and place aswell as who was there
• the context surrounding the event and associated emotions that you felt at the time

Question 2

semantic memory

Answer 2

-memories for facts and knowledge shared by everyone
-appropriate behaviours such as social norms or abstract concepts(maths/language)
-semantic memories begin as episodic to semantic whereby the information loses association

Question 3

procedural memory

Answer 3

-memory for how to do things(skills)
-such memories are implicit and not available for conscious inspection
-we are less aware of these memories as they become automatic to us

Question 4

Where is semantic memory located in the brain

Answer 4

Left prefrontal cortex

Question 5

where is episodic memory stored in the brain

Answer 5

Right prefrontal cortex

Question 6

where is procedural memory stored in the brain

Answer 6

Cerebellum and basal ganglia

Question 7

why are brain scans a strength and what do they suggest

Answer 7

-highlights which parts of the brain is being used
-suggests that each type of LTM in a different part of the brain