Long term memory

• Episodic memory:

  • past events/ experiences that we consciously remember
  • associated with time, place and emotion
  • easily forgotten

  e.g. what you had for breakfast
• Semantic memory

  • facts and information we consciously remember
  • don’t tend to recall time and place we learnt
  • easily forgotten

  e.g. what something tastes like, meanings of words
• Procedural memory

  • how to perform skills and action which become unconscious overtime
  • created by repeating activity multiple times
  • difficult to examples to others as we recall them without conscious awareness
  • resistant to forgetting

  e.g. how to ride a bike, how to swim
• A03

  p- supporting evidence

  e- from studies of different brain parts

  e- left prefrontal cortex involved in recalling semantic memories but right prefrontal cortex involved in recalling episodic memory

  l- so theres 3 areas of the brain for each type of memory

  p- supporting evidence

  e- HM and Clive Wearing both struggled to recall events suggesting problems in episodic memory but semantic memory was unaffected

  e- meaning its possible to damage one without affecting the other

  l- lack of control variables in the studies can be difficult to generalise and properly understand LTM
• A03

  p- may only be 2 types of LTM

  e- Cohen and Squire disagreed with Tulving

  e- they argue episodic and semantic were both stored together