types of long term memory

• who is the psychologist of the study

  endel tulving 1985
• what did tulving say was wrong with the msm view of LTM

  too simplistic and inflexible
• what is the episodic memory

  ability to recall specific episodes in our lives
• what is a semantic memory

  linked to general knowledge and facts
• what is a procedural memory

  relates to the ability to do something
• a strength of episodic memory

  supported by case study evidence

  -study of clive wearing
• strength of LTM


  brain scan studies show there are different LTM
• limitation of tulvings approach

  may only be two types

  -declarative:procedural

  -non-declarative: semantic and episodic
• limitation of LTM 


  problems with clinical evidence