Long Term Memory Types
- Created by: FraserHarold
- Created on: 07-04-14 19:11
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- Long Term Memory Types
- Procedural
- Skills and Habits possessed
- EG. Swimming, riding a bike
- Implicit
- Not usually conscious
- Skills and Habits possessed
- Semantic
- Type of Declarative
- Explicit
- Conscious thoughts required
- Explicit
- General Knowledge and Facts we know
- EG. Knowing the capital of a country
- Type of Declarative
- Episodic
- Type of Declarative
- Explicit
- Conscious thought required
- Explicit
- Autobiograpical
- Memory of events with personal meaning
- EG. where a holiday destination was
- Flashbulb Memory
- Vivid memory of an event
- Often life-changing
- EG a birth or death
- Often life-changing
- From one occasion, lasts a lifetime
- Vivid memory of an event
- Memory of events with personal meaning
- Experimental
- Learning a list of words, stored in semantic memory
- Also related to episode of having to learn for experiment
- Learning a list of words, stored in semantic memory
- Memories of specific events in ones' life
- Type of Declarative
- Tulving Study
- Radioactive gold injected into bloodstream.
- Participants then had to use semantic or episodic memory
- Blood flow in brain recorded
- Participants then had to use semantic or episodic memory
- Front of brain active with episodic memory
- Back of brain active with semantic memory
- Supports theory of different memory stores in LTM
- Back of brain active with semantic memory
- Radioactive gold injected into bloodstream.
- Procedural
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