Types of long-term memory

• Tulving believed the MSM view of the LTM was too simplistic. He proposed that there are three different LTM stores: procedural, semantic and episodic
• Procedural memory - 'knowing how'

  > procedural memory is a part of the long term memory that is responsible for knowing how to do things ie. memory of motor skills

  > procedural memories are non-declarative as they do not involve conscious recall

  > Cerebellum and motor cortex
• Semantic memory (LTM) -

  > semantic memory is a part of the long-term memory responsible for storing knowledge about the world. For example, knowledge about the meaning of words such as 'love', as well as general knowledge such as facts

  > semantic memories are declarative as they do involve conscious recall

  > semantic memories are not 'time stamped' - we do not usually remember when and where we first learned the information

  > temporal lobe
• Episodic memory

  > episodic memory is a part of the long-term memory responsible for storing information about events that we have experienced in our lives at a specific time

  > episodic memories are declarative as they do involve conscious recall

  > episodic memories are 'time stamped' - we remember when and where we learned these memories

  > Hippocampus
• AO3 -

  :) neuroimaging evidence to support

  :)scientific methods - objective and empirical

  :) RTS clive wearing

  DISSCUSSION low population validity
• Types of LTM AO3

  :) Neuroimaging evidence to support

  > Participants asked to perform various tasks while brains were being scanned

  > Episodic memories associated with the hippocampus

  > Different types of LTM in different areas of the brain
• Types of LTM AO3

  :) Scientific methods

  > Objective and empirical techniques such as brain scans

  > For example cerebellum and motor cortex being active when carrying out a motor task

  > Increasing the internal validity, therefore raising psychologys scientific status
• Types of LTM AO3

  :) Real life evidence - Clive Wearing

  > Suffers from amnesia in which his episodic memory was damaged

  > However his procedural memory was still working as he could still play the piano

  > Supports the idea that there are different types of LTM