types of LTM

Question 1

3 types of LTM

Answer 1

episodic
semantic
procedural

Question 2

define episodic memory

Answer 2

recall personal life events and experiences
conscious effort to recall
strength depends on emotions at time
complex and time stamped

Question 3

define semantic memory

Answer 3

facts about the world
conscious effort to recall
less personal and not time stamped

Question 4

define procedural memory

Answer 4

actions and skills
recall without conscious effort
difficult to verbalise skills

Question 5

evaluation of types of LTM
strength - neuro imaging research support

Answer 5

Tulving - perform various memory tasks while scanning brains
episodic memories - pre frontal cortex
semantic - postier region of cortex
different types of LTM found different parts of brain
suggests separate stores

Question 6

evaluation of types of LTM
strength - real life application

Answer 6

research support allows to improve people’s lives

Belleville demonstrated that episodic memory could be improved on older people who had mild cognitive impairment

if psychologists know about separate stores then treatment programmes can be developed to help

Question 7

evaluation of types of LTM
limitation- low population validity

Answer 7

very small samples
interested in cases like clive wearing - unique to one individual
finding from clive difficult to generalise to wider population

Question 8

evaluation of types of LTM
limitation - extent to which episodic and semantic stores are different is unclear

Answer 8

we acquire knowledge based on personal experiences, semantic memories can originate in episodic
therefore unclear if semantic is just gradual transformation from episodic
questions overall validity of theory
cannot be sure of internal validity of research presented as evidence