Evidence:
- Clive wearing supports Tulving’s ideas of different types of LTM. He had damage caused to his hippocampus, so shouldn’t have any LTM, but was able to play the piano and remembered his wife. This verifies that LTM is split into semantic and episodic memories.
Applications and Implications to Real Life:
- Can be applied to educational settings, LTM isn’t just about rehearsal as meaningfulness and understanding are important in forming different LTMs. So, teachers could be advised that rote learning is not the better form of learning, students need to understand what the information means or learn the rules involved in maths problems.
Comparisons and Credibility:
- Neurological evidence, episodic memories are affected if there is medial temporal lobe or prefrontal lobe damage but semantic memories aren’t. This provides objective and scientific evidence for types of LTM.
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