Tulving

• What is one way to describe episodic memory 


  A mental diary of a personal event or experience
• What is an example of an episodic memory 


  A birthday or holiday
• What is a semantic memory 


  A fact or peice of knowledge
• Do semantic memories use time referencing?


  No they are independent from time referencing
• Do episodic memories use time referencing 


  Yes they have a time and a place
• How are episodic memories forgotten


  Recall failure, memories can be changed or forgotten
• How are semantic memories forgotten


  They aren’t really they have a robust memory trace
• How are semantic memories retrieved 


  They aren’t retrieved they are less dependent on retrieval
• What type of memory was added later

  Procedural memory
• What was the experiment that proved context dependent memories 


  Godden and Baddeley Scuba divers
• What was the conclusion of scuba study


  Recall was twice as good when done in same context
• What is a procedural memory 


  Implicit memory of how to do something
• What is an example of procedural memory?


  playing the piano
• Where can this be applied to

  eye witness testimony
• what case study can be applied to this theory and how?

  Kent Cochrane as he had an intact semantic memory but didnt have any episodic memories
• what was the strength for this theory?

  idea that there was more than one store in the LTM
• what was a weakness of this theory?

  the theory only describes the semantic and episodic memories and doesn't explain them or what gives rise to semantic memories
• what is an alternative theory for this theory?

  idea that of the LTM can be broken down into different stores then the MSM model is now reductionist