[Memory] Topic 4 Types of Long term memory

Question 1

Explicit

Answer 1

Knowing That

Question 2

Implicit

Answer 2

Knowing How

Question 3

What is Episodic memories?

Answer 3

• Memories about knowing that and occur as a part of a sequence. Episodic memories are concerned with personal experience and has a time and date stamped

Question 4

What is Semantic memories?

Answer 4

Knowledge about the world which is shared by everyone rather than a personal episodic experience

Question 5

What is procedural memory?

Answer 5

Memory concerned with skills

Question 6

Evaluation 1: Support for the different types of long term memory comes from brain scans

Answer 6

• Support for the different types of long term memory comes from brain scans
• Research shows that different areas of the brain are active when using different types of LTM
• Episodic memory is associated with the hippo campus and temporal lobe, semantic memory also relies on the temporal lobe with the cerebellum
• This suggests that the three types of long term memory are separate and found in different areas of the brain