Long Term Memory Types

Question 1

3 types of long term memory

Answer 1

Episodic
Procedural
Semantic

Question 2

Define explicit and implicit memories

Answer 2

Explicit - declarative
- memories including knowledge of events and facts

Implicit - non-declarative
- memories of skilled behaviours, largely unconscious

Question 3

Episodic memories

Answer 3

• explicit
• personal experiences e.g. first day at school
• strength of the memory is determined by the strength of the emotions experienced when the memory is coded
• conscious
• associated with the hypo-campus

Question 4

Semantic memories

Answer 4

• explicit
• knowledge of facts, concepts about the world e.g. London is a capital
• associated with the temporal lobe
• stronger than episodic

Question 5

Procedural memories

Answer 5

• implicit
• how to perform certain tasks, actions, skills e.g. riding a bike
• hard to explain to someone else
• associated with the cerebellum + motor cortex

Question 6

Evaluate the LTM

Answer 6

• brain scans support LTM - shows that different parts of the brain are active when accessing episodic, semantic and procedural M.
  ->supports the idea that LTM made up of three catagories
• support for implicit and explicit LTM - patient HM had his hippocampus removed
  -> able to learn procedural tasks but not Semantic or episodic info (do Mirror tracing but couldn’t recall previously doing the task
• socially sensitive - HM’s identity hidden