Types of LTM

• Who proposed that the MSM is too simplistic?

  Tulving 1985
• what 3 LTM did Tulving suggest?

  • episodic memory
  • semantic memory
  • procedural memory
• what is episodic memory?

  our ability to recall events form our lives
• why is episodic memory time stamped?

  remember when the events happened
• describe what does each episode in episodic memory contain?

  several elements such as people, places and objects.

  They are all interwoven to produce a single memory
• How does recall work in episodic memory?

  you are consciously aware that you’re searching for your memory
• what is semantic memory?

  our knowledge of the world and facts
• why is semantic memory not time-stamped?

  we don’t usually remember when we first learned the fact
• how is the recall in semantic memory?

  need to be recalled deliberately
• what is procedural memory?

  our memory for actions or skills and how we do things
• how does recall in procedural memory work?

  recall them without conscious awareness or a great deal of effort
• describe the case of Clive wearing?

  • was a world-class musician
  • suffered form amnesia that resulted from a viral infection attacking the brain and damaging the hippocampus
  • can still play piano but doesn’t remember his musical education.
  • knows he has children but not their names