Long term memory

Question 1

Episodic memory

Answer 1

Personal events e.g mothers birthday
Time stamped events
Can relive these events

Question 2

Semantic memory

Answer 2

Stores knowledge of the word like facts and concepts, e.g the capital city of the UK is London
Not time stamped

Question 3

Procedural memory

Answer 3

Memory of how to do tasks, including motor skills and habits. e.g playing the piano

Question 4

Strength

Answer 4

HM - difficulty recalling events from his past, but his semantic memory was unaffected - supporting Tulving’s view that there are different memory stores in LTM
However, researchers had no knowledge of HM’s memory before the accident - lack of control reduces the validity of clinical studies
Clive wearing - intact procedural memory - piano

Question 5

Weakness

Answer 5

Tulving showed that it’s possible to have a functioning semantic memory alongside a damaged episodic memory. However, it is not possible the other way round - relationship between types of LTM is more complex than Tulving originally believed

Question 6

RW application

Answer 6

jogging memory - theory states episodic memory is encoded based on how it was experienced - episodic memories van be ‘jogged’ by context cues.