Types of Long-Term Memory

• :) neuroimaging evidence

  > participants asked to perform various memory tasks while their brains were scanned with a PET scanner

  > found that episodic memories are associated with the hippocampus, whereas procedural memory is associated with the cerebellum and motor cortex

  > supports because the types of LTM were found in different brain areas, indicating they are separate
• :) scientific methods

  > objective and empirical techniques, such as brain scans, are used to identify the brain areas that become active when completing different types of LTM tasks e.g. cerebellum and motor cortex being active when carrying out a procedural task

  > increases internal validity, thus raising psychology's scientific status
• :) real-life evidence

  > Clive Wearing - his episodic memory was damaged, as he could not remember some past events, but his procedural memory was still working as he could remember how to play the piano

  > supports because it indicates that they are separate, also, his amnesia was caused by a virus that damaged his hippocampus (episodic memory)

  discussion - low population validity