ESP

• episodic memory


  type of long term memory for events from our lives that are related to time and place
• declarative?

  available for conscious inspection
• which ESP is non declarative

  procedural
• semantic memory


  memory for knowledge about the world
• is it declarative


  yes
• procedural memory


  memories on how to do things
• describe the clinical evidence

  his episodic memory was damaged - couldn't remember his children but knew he had them

  procedural memory intact - can still play piano
• describe Tulving's neuro imaging evidence

  - 6 volunteers were injected with a small amount of gold which was scanned to detect its location

  - each pefromed 8 tasks lasting 80s

  - 4 semantic + 4 episodic tasks
• where was the increases activity for the episodic tasks

  right prefrontal cortex
• what was the increase in activity for semantic tasks


  left prefrontal cortex
• AO3: strength

  - brain scan studies show there are different ltm stores

  - tulvings exp

  - different areas activated for each memory
• AO3: strength


  - episodic memory is supported by clinical evidence

  - clive wearing

  procedural memories intact
• AO3: Weakness

  - problems with using case studies

  - amnesia patients are unique

  - no control over confounding variables

  - difficult to generalise