Long term memory
- Created by: Chloe Rugman
- Created on: 02-05-18 14:44
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- Types of long term memory (Tulving)
- procedural: know how to do things (unconscious)
- semantic: info about the world i.e. meanings of words/generalknowledge (that & facts)
- episodic: storing info about events (conscious - knowing that)
- (Tulving) LTM isn't unitary
- weaknesses
- lack of control & variables from case studies, not gen etc
- Cohen & Squire - 2 types? declarative (E & S) & non declarative (P)
- strengths
- HM & Clive Wearing impaired episodic mem due to amnesia but semantic & procedural relatively unaffected
- brain scan studies: memory tasks whilst PET scans - E recalled from L prefrontal cortex & S from RPC. Also confirmed by later research -validity
- allows psychologists to target certain types of mem for specific treatments i.e E improved in elderly w/ mild cognitive impairment
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