types of LTM

Question 1

define procedural memory

Answer 1

motor skills- implicit

Question 2

define semantic memory

Answer 2

storing facts and info about the world- explicit and has no time stamp

Question 3

define episodic memory

Answer 3

storing info about events we experience- explicit and has time stamp

Question 4

outline the case of HM as an advantage to the types of LTM

Answer 4

LTM damaged from surgery to reduce seizures- tested following line on paper and could do the task each time successfully but couldn’t remember completing the task, suggesting his procedural memory was in tact but his episodic memory was damaged displaying they can be separate concepts

Question 5

outline the case of CW as an advantage to the types of LTM

Answer 5

severe herpes which caused LTM damage- able to dress himself and play piano but wouldn’t remember when wife left and re-entered, suggesting his procedural memory is in tact but his episodic memory was damaged displaying they are separate

Question 6

outline how empirical evidence can support the types of LTM

Answer 6

through use of PET scans found episodic memory on the right of prefrontal cortex and semantic on the left- empirical evidence of the concepts existing and being separate