Types of Long Term Memory

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Episodic Memory
Personal memories of events. This type of memory includes contextual details and emotional tone.
3 elements: Specific details, Context, Emotions.
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Semantic Memory
Shared memories for facts or knowledge. These may be concrete, like that ice is made from water or abstract, like mathematical concepts.
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Procedural Memory
Memory for how to do things e.g. read. Such memories are automatic as the result of repeated practice.
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Evaluation:
Supported By Brain Scans
Episodic Memory - Hippocampus and areas around it in the temporal lobe and frontal lobe.
Semantic memory - Temporal lobe.
Procedural memory - Cerebellum, limbic system and basal ganglia.
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Evaluation:
Difficult To Reach A Conclusion From Brain-Damaged Patients
Can be difficult to be certain of the exact part of the brain affected by amnesia until after the patient dies (HM).
Area damaged isn't necessarily the area responsible, could be a relay station.
Can't establish a causal relationship.
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Evaluation:
Support From Alzheimer's Patients That Distinguish Between Episodic & Semantic Memories
Some Alzheimer's patients retained the ability to form semantic but not episodic memories (Hodges and Patterson, 2007).
A second dissociation was found by Irish et al. (2011) in patients with the reverse.
Therefore, episodic may be a gateway to semantic.
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Shared memories for facts or knowledge. These may be concrete, like that ice is made from water or abstract, like mathematical concepts.

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Semantic Memory

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Memory for how to do things e.g. read. Such memories are automatic as the result of repeated practice.

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Episodic Memory - Hippocampus and areas around it in the temporal lobe and frontal lobe.
Semantic memory - Temporal lobe.
Procedural memory - Cerebellum, limbic system and basal ganglia.

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Card 5

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Can be difficult to be certain of the exact part of the brain affected by amnesia until after the patient dies (HM).
Area damaged isn't necessarily the area responsible, could be a relay station.
Can't establish a causal relationship.

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