- recalling events that were personally experienced
- time-stamped : places events at a certain point in time
- elements : people, attitudes, behaviours
- personal
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Semantic memory
- factual information, knowledge & understanding of language
- less vulnerable to distortion & forgetting
- not time-stamped
- factual & informative
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Strength - case study support
Patient HM - difficulty recalling memories from the past (impaired episodic memory) but still understood the meaning of words/ identified people whom he had known (semantic memory working)
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Strength - scientific credibility
The different types of memory are supported by brain scans :
- episodic memory : temporal & parietal lobe
- semantic memory : temporal lobe
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Weakness - case study support : unreliable
Case studies - idiographic in nature
Cannot be generalisable, research support for the theory is weak and unreliable
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Weakness - complex relationship between semantic & episodic memory
Research has shown : possible to have a fully working semantic memory with damaged episodic
not possible to have a working episodic with a damaged semantic
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Front
Semantic memory
Back
- factual information, knowledge & understanding of language
- less vulnerable to distortion & forgetting
- not time-stamped
- factual & informative
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