L7 - LTM types

Question 1

What are the 3 LTM types?

Answer 1

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 2

Describe episodic LTM

Answer 2

Stores memories about personal life events and experiences
Context
Emotions at the time
Specific details of it

Question 3

Describe semantic LTM

Answer 3

General knowledge and facts about the world

Can include social rules and abstract concepts

Question 4

Semantic memories start as…

Answer 4

Episodic memories

Then generalised as association to events is long

Question 5

Describe procedural LTM

Answer 5

Memory related to motor skills and actions, plus routines

Acquired through practise and repitition

Question 6

What’s important about procedural memory?

Answer 6

It’s automatic

More resistant to forgetting

Question 7

Where is each type stored in the brain?

Answer 7

E: hippocampus
S: temporal lobe
P: cerebellum

Question 8

Advantage related to brain scans?

Answer 8

Brain scans show access to episodic causes hippocampus to activate, semantic to temporal, etc.
Separate and distinct

Question 9

Advantage related to HM?

Answer 9

Formed new procedural memories

Not new episodic as hippocampus was removed

Question 10

Disadvantage related to different memory?

Answer 10

Perceptual-representation system
Implicit memories influence people’s responses and behaviour
Answers are automatic and unconscious