Types of long term memory
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- Created on: 22-04-19 08:51
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- Types of long term memory
- Episodic memory
- A form of LTM for events occurring in a person's life
- Autobiographical record of personal experiences
- Prefrontal cortex is associated with episodic memories
- Requires conscious thought and is declarative
- Case study of episodic memory; HM and Clive Wearing
- Semantic memory
- A type of LTM for meanings and general knowledge
- Coding associated with frontal and temporal lobes
- Requires conscious thought and is declarative
- Procedural memory
- A type of LTM for the performance of particular actions
- Mainly associated with primary motor cortex, cerebellum and pre-frontal cortex
- Unconscious (automatic) and not declarative
- Evaluation
- Amnesia patients have difficulty with episodic and semantic, no problems with procedural
- Evidence for different types of LTM
- Heavily relies on case studies as evidence
- Highly unreliable and can't generalise
- Allows us to inspect naturally occurring stimuli
- Tulving (1994) PET scans used to show how types of LTM are stored in different brain areas
- Amnesia patients have difficulty with episodic and semantic, no problems with procedural
- Episodic memory
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