TYPES OF LTM

• HM- hippocampus removed- could not remember new life events or new factual information, he could however learn new tasks- when asked to draw a star through a mirror he got quicker at drawing each time he did it- shows there are diff LTM stores, HM had damage to his episodic and semantic memory but his procedural memory was intact


  could not make new or semantic memories
• limtiation of HM

  one individual, not representative enough to make inferences about the wider population
• clive wearing study- cannot remember life events eg episodic memory, can however remember that he was married to his wife Debra and he still has the ability to play the piano which is the procedural memory,
• the use of ideographic research such as HM and Clive Wearing allows researchers to study in a way that would be impossible experimentally, however there are problems of generalising the findings of these clinical case studies with one or few individuals, to explaining how memory works in the wider population. There could be other unknown issues unique to that individual that can explain the behaviour