Types of LTM

• Explicit memory


  A long term memory store for personal experiences and episodes. They are time-stamped (remember when they happened) and include several elements like people, places, objects and behaviours. Require conscious effort to retrieve, memory can be vague to begin with.
• Explicit memory


  • Complex and have 3 specific elements: the details of the event, the context, and the emotions
• Explicit memory


  • Going to the dentist, a concert you've been to, psychology lesson last week, breakfast you had
• Semantic memory


  A long term memory store for knowledge of the world. A combination of a dictionary and an encyclopedia. Memories are not time-stamped, more than just facts and constantly being added to. Less personal effort required to retrieve.
• Procedural memory


  A long term memory store for our knowledge of how to do things. Memory of learned skills that might be hard to explain to someone as they have become a natural part of your behaviour. Recalled easily and without conscious effort, often acquired through repetition and practice.
• Procedural memory


  • Swimming, reading, riding a bike
• Explicit memory


  Associated with the hippocampus, but the prefrontal cortex is associated with coding episodic memories
• Semantic memory


  Associated with the temporal lobe
• Procedural memory


  Associated with the cerebellum and motor cortex