Topic 3- types of long term memory

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Episodic memory
LTM store for personal events
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Semantic memory
LTM store for our knowledge of the world e.g. facts
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Procedural memory
LTM store for our knowledge of how to do things e.g.skills
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Evaluation-Clinical evidence
HM and Clive Wearing had severely impaired episodic memory but their semantic memories weren't really affected. This evidence supports Tulving's view that there are different memory stores in LTM. One store can be damaged but other stores unaffected
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Evaluation- real life application
identifying different aspects of LTM allows psychologists to target certain types of memory in order to better people's lives.
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LTM store for our knowledge of the world e.g. facts

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Semantic memory

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LTM store for our knowledge of how to do things e.g.skills

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HM and Clive Wearing had severely impaired episodic memory but their semantic memories weren't really affected. This evidence supports Tulving's view that there are different memory stores in LTM. One store can be damaged but other stores unaffected

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identifying different aspects of LTM allows psychologists to target certain types of memory in order to better people's lives.

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