LTM

Question 1

What are the 3 types of LTM

Answer 1

Episodic memory
Procedural memory
Semantic memory

Question 2

Episodic memory is

Answer 2

-our ability to recall events from our lives including the memory of when it happened, the people and the objects
-memories from this store are retrieved consciously
-least resistant to forgetting

Question 3

Procedural memory is

Answer 3

The memory store for our knowledge of actions and skills
-we recall these without conscious awareness or deliberate effort
-most resistant to forgetting

Question 4

Semantic memory is

Answer 4

-knowledge of the world including facts and knowledge of words and concepts
-recalled deliberately with conscious effort

Question 5

Supporting case study

Answer 5

-Clive Wearing
-Can’t remember day to day events
-Can play the piano
-Knows what a dog is

Question 6

Supporting neuroimaging evidence

Answer 6

Tulving
-Episodic memory-left prefrontal cortex
-Semantic and procedural memory-right prefrontal cortex

-Supports them as separate unitary stores

Question 7

Practical application

Answer 7

-Researchers creating interventions to improve the episodic recall of elders
-Educate on episodic being least resistant to forgetting
-Treat/Manage loss of cognitive abilities in elder patients

Question 8

Contradicting research

Answer 8

-Researchers suggest that there are actually 2 stores
-Declarative-episodic and semantic
-non-declarative-procedural

-Contradicts the idea of 3 way division of memory

Question 9

Extra PEELs

Answer 9

Case studies can’t be generalized