Types of LTM ( Tulving 1985)

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    • Tulving's gold memory study ( brain scan)

      • episodic tasks = frontal and temporal lobe were activated
      • semantic tasks = parietal and occipital lobes of the cereal cortex were activated
    • PROCEDURAL MEMORY
      action or skill ( muscle memory )
      • automatic
      • typically acquired through repetition and practice
    • SEMANTIC MEMORY
      knowledge of world and facts (knowledge that is shared buy everyone)
    • EPISODIC MEMORY
      ability to recall personal experiences from your lives

      THREE ELEMENTS;
      • specific details of events
      • conscious effort to recall
      • time stamped
    • non-declarative memory
      (implicit memory)
      • Knowing how
      • procedural memory is non-declarative
    • Declarative memory
      ( explicit memory )
      • knowing what
      • semantic and episodic are declarative
    • three components of LTM
      1. Semantic memory
      2. episodic memory
      3. procedural memory
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