Types of long term memory

Question 1

What are the 2 main types of LTM?

Answer 1

Implicit and explicit

Question 2

What are implicit memories?

Answer 2

Knowing how

Question 3

What are explicit memories?

Answer 3

Knowing that

Question 4

What are the 3 types of LTM?

Answer 4

Episodic, procedural and semantic

Question 5

What is an episodic memory?

Answer 5

Personal memories of events

Question 6

What are the 3 components of an episodic memory?

Answer 6

Specific details, the context and the emotional tone

Question 7

Are episodic memories implicit or explicit?

Answer 7

Explicit

Question 8

What is a procedural memory?

Answer 8

Memory for how to do things

Question 9

How are procedural memories typically acquired?

Answer 9

Through repetition and practice

Question 10

Are procedural memories implicit or explicit?

Answer 10

Implicit

Question 11

What are semantic memories?

Answer 11

Shared memories for facts and knowledge

Question 12

Are semantic memories implicit or explicit?

Answer 12

Explicit

Question 13

What are the 4 AO3 points of types of LTM?

Answer 13

1) Brain scan support
2) Case study support
3) Priming and a fourth type of LTM
4) Distinguishing episodic and semantic memories

Question 14

What brain region is episodic memory associated with?

Answer 14

The hippocampus

Question 15

What brain region is semantic memory associated with?

Answer 15

The temporal lobe

Question 16

What brain region is procedural memory associated with?

Answer 16

Cerebellum

Question 17

Which case study supports the types of LTM?

Answer 17

HM

Question 18

After his surgery, which types of LTM was HM able to form?

Answer 18

Procedural memories

Question 19

After his surgery, which types of LTM was HM unable to form?

Answer 19

Semantic and episodic memories

Question 20

What skill was HM able to learn after his surgery?

Answer 20

Mirror-drawing

Question 21

What is priming?

Answer 21

How implicit memories influence the responses a person makes to a stimulus

Question 22

What does priming support?

Answer 22

That there is a 4th type of LTM

Question 23

Give an example of priming.

Answer 23

When an individual is given a list of words containing yellow, they are more likely to say ‘banana’ when asked to name a fruit compared to a non-primed individual

Question 24

Is priming implicit or explicit?

Answer 24

Implicit

Question 25

Why is priming implicit?

Answer 25

It is automatic and unconscious

Question 26

What have studies on Alzheimer’s patients found support for?

Answer 26

Separate episodic and semantic memory stores

Question 27

What have researchers found about the semantic and episodic memories of Alzheimer’s patients?

Answer 27

-Some Alzheimer’s patients retain the ability to form new semantic memories, but not new episodic memories
-Some Alzheimer’s patients have poor semantic memories, but in-tact episodic memories

Question 28

What does the double dissociation of Alzheimer’s patients suggest?

Answer 28

That semantic memories and episodic memories are separate, and that episodic memories may be a gateway to semantic memories, but they can still form independently