Types of LTM

Question 1

what are the 2 types of LTM?

Answer 1

explicit & implicit

Question 2

explicit meaning

Answer 2

declarative = ‘i know that’

Question 3

implicit meaning

Answer 3

procedural = ‘i know how to do that’ - skill based knowledge acquired through repetition & practice, resulting in automatic performance

Question 4

2 parts of explicit

Answer 4

episodic & semantic

Question 5

episodic

Answer 5

time & place of events & associated emotions

Question 6

semantic

Answer 6

knowledge about the world like facts, functions of items, language, social customs, etc

Question 7

EVALUATION strengths

Answer 7

SUPPORT FROM BRAIN SCANS
- memories for a particular event may be located in different areas but connected by the hippocampus as 1 episodic memory
- semantic = temporal lobe
- procedural = cerebellum & motor cortex
HM CASE STUDY
- hippocampus damage = no new LTM but could access previous LTM
- could still acquire new procedural
- corkin (2002) mirror drawing task = no memory he could do the task but improved each time
- counterargument = case study so unique & not replicable

Question 8

EVALUATION limitation

Answer 8

CONFLICTING NEUROIMAGING EVIDENCE
- buckner & petersen (1996) = reviewed location of semantic & episodic
- concluded that semantic was in the left of prefrontal cortex & episodic in the right
- other studies say differently
- challenges any neurophysiological evidence for memory due to poor agreement on the location of each part