types of LTM

Question 1

semantic

Answer 1

• facts, general knowledge
• same for everyone
• not ‘time stamped’
• explicit memory
• hippocampus
  e.g. lyrics to a song, the weather

Question 1

Episodic

Answer 1

• core memories
• personal to you
• people, places, objects
• ‘time stamped’
• hippocampus
  e.g. wedding, birthday, holiday

Question 2

procedural

Answer 2

• muscle memory, processes, how to do things
• automatic through practice
• implicit memory
• cerebellum
  e.g. ride a bike, shoe laces

Question 3

AO3 strength (case)

Answer 3

• case study support
• Clive wearing damage to hippocampus after an infection, episodic memory impaired but semantic + procedural unaffected
• evidences separate LTM stores
• CA: case study so only 1 case, cant apply to whole population as not replicable

Question 4

AO3 strength (scan)

Answer 4

• neuroimaging evidence
• brain scans show different types of LTM in different parts of the brain
• episodic memories were located in the right prefrontal cortex and semantic memories in the left

Question 5

AO3 weakness

Answer 5

• opposing view
• Tulving’s recent idea that episodic is a type of semantic memory so aren’t separate stores
• discredits theory