LTM Eval

Question 1

Who proposed biological evidence?

Answer 1

Vargha-Karen et al

Question 2

Biolgoical evidence study participants

Answer 2

3 young patients with damaged hippocampus but avoided damage to parahippocampul cortex

Question 3

What was significant about the biological explanations participants?

Answer 3

All 3 had significant episodic amnesia but could recall semantic info at an appropriate level

Question 4

What does the biological research show?

Answer 4

Semantic memory is less demendent on the hippocampus
Semantic and episodic memory is distinct

Question 5

What could wearing remember?

Answer 5

Facts about his life (semantic)
How to play the piano (procedural)

Question 6

What type of amnesia does wearing have?

Answer 6

Retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia

Question 7

What was wearing unable to do?

Answer 7

Remember episodic memories
Encode new specific or semantic memories
Under experimental conditions he could gain new memories via repetition

Question 8

What does research on wearing suggest?

Answer 8

Semantic, episodic and procedural memory exist as separate processes.
Clive lacks episodic but can recall semantic and procedural memory exist