Memory: types of LTM

Question 1

What are the different types of LTM?

Answer 1

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 2

What is the episodic LTM?

Answer 2

.memory of events (time stamped)
.explicit

Question 3

What is the semantic LTM?

Answer 3

.memory of facts and general knowledge
.explicit

Question 4

What is the procedural LTM?

Answer 4

.memory of actions and skills
.implicit

Question 5

Which types of LTM are explict and what does explicit mean?

Answer 5

-episodic and semantic
-have to think about them

Question 6

Which type of LTM is implicit and what does implicit mean?

Answer 6

-procedural
-automatic

Question 7

What are some of the things in support of the LTM?

Answer 7

-HM could make new procedural LTM but not episodic and semantic
-Irish et al:
.alzheimer’s patients can lack semantic but not episodic or the other way round

Question 8

What are some things that don’t support the LTM?

Answer 8

-over-reliance on brain damage patients -just because you lose a part of your brain and also lose a specific function, it doesn’t mean this area was exclusively used for that function -difficult to generalise from these case studies to determine the exact nature of LTM
-priming:
.programmed to think in a certain way, thinking can be effected without your explicit knowledge which suggests a second type of implicit