Types of LTM

Question 1

Episodic Memory

Answer 1

Recall episodes from our lives
declarative/explicit - retrieved consciously

Question 2

Semantic Memory

Answer 2

The meaning of words, facts and knowledge.
declarative/explicit - retrieved consciously

Question 3

Procedural Memory

Answer 3

memory of how to do things and practical skills
undeclarative/implicit - retrieved unconscously

Question 4

Evidence supporting and challenging types of LTM

Answer 4

Tulving 1994
Blakemore case study of Clive Wearing 1980

Question 5

Tulving 1994

Answer 5

PET scans
Different types of memories used diffrent parts of the brain. Evidence of different types of memories

Question 6

Cerebellum

Answer 6

procedural

Question 7

Hippocampi

Answer 7

episodic

Question 8

Prefrontal cortex

Answer 8

semantic

Question 9

Issue + debate

Answer 9

Reductionist, could be more types of LTM

Miller 1958 case study of HM
surgery to remove part of temporal lobe.

Question 10

Clive Wearing

Answer 10

Damage to hippocampi - no episodic memory
could still remember facts + meaning - semantic
could still walk and play piano - procedural