Types of LTM

Question 1

What is episodic memory?

Answer 1

Personal experiences influenced by emotions present at the time, e.g. date of birth or trauma events

Question 2

What is semantic memory?

Answer 2

Explicit memory shared by everyone (knowledge) although it can also be linked to episodic LTM - e.g. facts

Question 3

What is procedural memory?

Answer 3

Skills from repetition and practice, e.g. tying a shoelace or learning to read

Question 4

How is HM and Clive Wearing evidence for different types of LTM?

Answer 4

Only a certain part of their LTM was affected. Procedural memories were still intact but episodic memories were impaired

Question 5

Where are semantic memories stored?

Answer 5

Prefrontal cortex - left

Question 6

Where are episodic memories stored?

Answer 6

Prefrontal cortex - right

Question 7

Where are procedural memories stored?

Answer 7

Cerebellum and basal ganglia

Question 8

Who found out where different LTM’s are stored?

Answer 8

Tulving in 1994 got pp’s to perform tasks whilst their brains were scanned using a PET scanner