A01 Types of long-term memory

• Tulving


  First cognitive psychologist to realise MSM view of LTM was inflexible and simplitics. He proposed three stores with different types of information
• Episodic memory


  Refers to our ability to recall events from our diaries. Linked to diaries or a record of daily happenings.
• Process of remembering episodic memories

  Firstly, the memories are time-stamped, then the single episode includes several elements: people,places,objects, behaviours which are all interwoven to a single episode. Thirdly, you have to make a conscious effort to recall episodic memories
• Semantic memory


  Less personal and contains general knowledge that is not time-stamped to when we learned the information. Contains an immense collection of material which is constantly being added to
• Procedural memory


  Memory of skills and actions: how we do things. We can recall these memories without conscious awareness or great effort. Our ability to do this depends on the procedural memory
• Describing skills from procedural memory


  These skills may be hard to explain to someone else and when explaining the task, the task my become more difficult