Types of long term memory

Question 1

What are the two sub-types of LTM?

Answer 1

Explicit and Implicit

Question 2

What is the difference between the two sub-types?

Answer 2

Explicit - “knowing that”
Implicit - “knowing how”

Question 3

What are the two types of Explicit memory?

Answer 3

Episodic and Semantic

Question 4

Episodic memory info

Answer 4

Personal memory of an event; includes contextual and emotional details

Question 5

Semantic memory info

Answer 5

Facts and knowledge; not personal experiences, could be known by everyone. e.g. functions of objects or appropriate behaviour
(begins as episodic, becomes semantic when you forget when you learnt it)

Question 6

Implicit memory type

Answer 6

Procedural

Question 7

Procedural memory info

Answer 7

How to do things, automatic due to repetition and practise, allows us to focus on other things whilst carrying-out these actions

Question 8

Brain scan evidence info

Answer 8

Episodic - hippocampus
Semantic - temporal lobe
Procedural - cerebellum

As different parts are used it shows the memories are separate.