Types of Long term memory

• What is episodic memory?


  A LTM store for Personal Events

  They're 'time stamped' (Dates)

  able to recall people, objects, behaviour and emotions

  Concious recall

  
• What is semantic memory?


  knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts. They are not time stamped or personal.

  
• What is procedural memory?


  Stores our knowledge of how to do things. Includes memories of learned skills.

  Unconcious Recall and hard to describe to others

  
• What was Clive wearings Involvement?


  Supports the idea that LTM is made of different types. His episodic LTM was damaged by semantic and procedural were in tact.
• What was the evidence from brain scans?


  PPS carried out various tasks using different aspects of LTM whilst he gave them a PET scan. Episodic and semantic memory were centered in the pre-frontal cortex.
• 2 or 3 types?


  Cohen and squire challenged the idea of 3 types of LTM. The say that there is procedural and declarative (which is combination of semantic and episodic).
• What were the findings from the alzheimers studies?


  Many patients have functioning episodic memories by semantic memories are destroyed, proving LTM is not a single store.
• Is there a fourth kind?

  Perceptual-representation-system is a unconcious LTM responce for cognitive priming. A list of words were given to pps including 'yellow'. which prompted them to draw an bannana or lemon when asked later on.