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Describe and evaluate different types of long term memory

Long term memory Semantic memory Procedural memory
 Tulving argues the MSM’s version of LTM is to  Hippocampus forms new memories and  A long-term memory store for our knowledge
simplistic and suggested there are 3 LTM stores- organizes them with related memories and on motor actions.
episodic, procedural and semantic memory. LT emotions.
memory either explicit- knowledge of event or  Recalled without effort, we can do a cognitive
implicit- skilled behavior  A long-term memory store for knowledge of the attention task at the same time. E.g how to
world, it includes facts, knowledge and concepts. ride a bike.
 Episodic memory is a long-term memory store for
personal events- memories of when event occurs,  These are not time stamped and contain variety  It is associated with the basal ganglia and
people, objects and influence of emotions at the of concepts e.g animals, love and knowledge like cerebellum.
time all in one memory. E,g first crush. This what an orange tastes like.
memory is time stamped.  Acquired through repetition and practice and
 Coding is in the frontal and temporal lobes are are implicit.
 Have to make conscious effort to recall. Prefrontal recall is in the left prefrontal cortex.
cortex code E.M- the memories are recalled from
 Anterograde amnesia – can’t make new
right side of P.F.C
memories.
Clive wearing and HM RLA Brain scans
 The cases of clive wearing and patient HM show  These studies are useful to help improve  There is also evidence from brain scan studies
that episodic memory was severely impaired by people’s lives, as they are able to identify that different types of memories are stored in
amnesia but they still have semantic memory- different aspects of LTM and target certain different parts of the brain.
understood the meaning of words. memories.
 Tulving got p’s to perform memory tasks
 This was shown when HM could not recall stroking a  Belleville demonstrated that episodic memories while their brain was scanned using PET
dog an hour earlier but understands the concept of could be improved in older people who had a scanner and found that episodic and semantic
a dog. They also had procedural memory in task; mild cognitive impairment. The memory-trained memory were recalled from the prefrontal
CW could play piano and HM could learn a mirror- p’s performed better on a test of episodic cortex. (SLER)
tracing task and retain skill. memory after training than a control group.
 Therefore this supports the view that different
 Supports view that there are independent memory  EM is the type of memory most affected by mild brain regions are responsible for different
stores in LTM and in different parts of the brain. cog impairment, benefit of distinguishing btn types of LTM- supports idea of 3 distinct
One can be damaged and other not. Both had LTM bc enables specific treatments to be categories
anterograde amnesia. developed.

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