Types Of LTM

Question 1

What are Semantic Memories?

Answer 1

Memories of the meaning of things.

Question 2

What are Episodic memories?

Answer 2

Memories of events.

Question 3

What are Procedural Memories?

Answer 3

Memories of skills and processes - driving a car.

Question 4

What are Explicit/Declarative Memories?

Answer 4

Memories that you have to consciously think about, including episodic and semantic.

Question 5

What are implicit/non-declarative memories?

Answer 5

Memories that are unconscious, and do not need to be explicitly thought about, including procedural.

Question 6

Reasons FOR the theory of LTM:

Answer 6

1. Clinical studies for amnesia (HM) could make new procedural LTM but not episodic and semantic.
2. Brain scanning evidence - Episodic memory stored in the hippocampus and frontal lobe, semantic in the temporal lobe, procedural in the cerebellum.
3. Irish et al found that some Alzheimer’s patient can lack semantic but not episodic . This suggest separate stores.

Question 7

Reason AGAINST the theory of types of LTM

Answer 7

1. Over-reliance in brain damage patients - Just because parts of their brain have been damaged doesn’t mean it had a specific function.