Types of LTM ( Tulving 1985)

• 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