types of long term memory MEM

Question 1

episodic memory

Answer 1

Long term store for personal events - when they occurred, people, objects, places. Need effort for retrieval

Question 2

semantic memory

Answer 2

For knowledge of the world, facts of words and concepts

Question 3

procedural memory

Answer 3

Knowledge of how to do things - learned skills unconscious recall

Question 4

What did Tulving relise about the MSM?

Answer 4

It was too simplistic and inflexible

Question 5

which 3 LTM stores did Tulving propose?

Answer 5

• episodic memory
• semantic memory
• procedural memory

Question 6

Strength for types of LTM

Clinical evidence

Answer 6

evidence from the famous case studies of HM (Henry Molaison) and Clive Wearing

• Episodic memory in both men was severely impaired due to brain damage
• semantic memories were unaffected

This evidence supports Tulving’s view that there are difference memory stores in LTM - one can be damaged but other stores are unaffected

Question 7

Limitation of types of LTM

counterpoint to clinical evidence