Types of LTM

• What are the 3 different types of LTM?

  Episodic, semantic and procedural
• What is episodic memory?

  Episodes/events in your life, e.g. your wedding day
• What is semantic memory?

  The meanings of words/facts, e.g. who won Wimbledon last year
• What is procedural memory?

  Skills/how we do things, e.g. playing the piano
• Evaluate the theory of the different types of LTM.

  + Clive Wearing: semantic and procedural memory were unaffected, but episodic memory was damaged: he could remember how to play the piano and read music, but could not remember what he had done 30 minutes earlier

  + RWA: allows psychologists to help people with memory problems (especially episodic) interventions have been developed to improve episodic memories in older people

  -poor agreement on where each type of LTM is located in the brain