Types of long term memory

• types of LTM Tulving) Episodic

  -explicit

  -time stamped, events, names , dates, require conscious effort to recall

  -strength of memory determined by emotions experienced when coded(emotional events)

  -e.g date of birthday
• types of LTM Tulving) Semantic

  -explicit

  -meaning/facts about the world

  -e.g phone number, Paris is in France
• types of LTM Tulving) Procedural

  -implicit

  -skills & performance of actions

  —difficult to explain to someone else

  E.g bike riding
• types of LTM Ao3) clinical support

  -Clive Wearing, lost episodic memory after viral brain infection

  -his procedural memory was in tact, he could still play instruments

  -proof LTM has different stores
• types of LTM ao3) case studies e.g Clive wearing can’t be used to generalize public

  -cases are unique , inappropriate to generalize they could be due to individual differences and small sample
• types of LTM Ao3) brain scans

  -show that different parts of brain are active during tasks

  -Tulving got people to perform tasks as their brains were scanned

  -explicit memory was recalled from prefrontal cortex