Types of LTM AO3

Question 1

What are the strengths of LTM types?

Answer 1

1. it’s supported by clinical evidence (Clive Wearing and HM)
2. it’s supported by Neuroimaging evidence (PET scans)
3. it has real ife application as it could be used to improve older people with cognative impairments (Belleville et al)

Question 2

Describe Clive Wearing’s and HM’s case studys.

Answer 2

• as a consequence of amnesia they had impaired episodic memory
• shown by struggling to remember persoanl events from the past
• semantic memory was unaffected as they could remember meaning of words
  Procedural Memory was also unaffected as shown by:
• Wearing and clive knew how to walk and talk
• Wearing could aslo remember how to read music (he used to be a professional musician )

Question 3

How does HM’s and Clive Wearing’s case study support Tulving’s study?

on the types of LTM

Answer 3

it shows that memory is stored in different places and that each type of memory is stored in different places

as Tulving suggests

Question 4

Describe the Neuroimaging evidence.

for LTM types

Answer 4

Tulving et al got their participants to perform various memory tasks while using a PET scan which showed that memory is stored in different parts of the brain

as Tulving suggests

Question 5

What are the weaknesses of Tulving’s study?

on LTM types

Question 6

Describe Belleville’s study and how it support’s Tulving’s theory.

on LTM types

Answer 6

• Their trained participants performed better on the episodic memory test that the controll group
• episodic memory is most affected by cognitive impairment
• this study shows how epidoic memory could be improved in people who have these issues
• this highlights the importance in clearly distinguishing between the types of LTM as Tulving implied

Question 7

What are the limitations of the types of LTM?

as well as the counter arguments for the strengths

Answer 7

1. the clinical evidence used to support only uses 1 or two people which means the findings can’t bt generalised to everyone
2. Cohen and Squires suggested that there are 2 types and not 3 (episodic and semantic memory are grouped into declarative memory and procedural are non-declarative)