Flashcards
Types of Long Term Memory
Cards in this deck (6)
- 13 Types of LTMSemantic - Facts, General info, people, places etc
Episodic - Experiences, memories
Procedural - How to do things, eg ride a bike - 2TulvingScanned his own brain while thinking of facts or memories
The two different thoughts were associated with different parts of the brain
Difficult to interperate the results of the scan - 3HMWas taught how to draw a circle on a moving thing, his performance started poor but improved
A few days later he attempted it again, without the knowledge of him being taught to do it, he was as good as he was at the end of the previous session
HM cannot create new semantic or episodic memory but can acquire new procedural knowledge - 4Amnesia PatientsCan lose their episodic and semantic memories but not their procedural knowledge
- 5Huntingtons DiseasePatients can lose their ability for procedural things
- 6WheelerRetrieval of episodic memory comes from the self awareness someone has from experiencing the event
Information
- Description
- A-Levels Psychology (PSYB2 - Memory) Flashcards on Types of Long Term Memory, created by Adam O'Rourke on 30/05/2013.
- Created by
- Adam O'Rourke
- Views
- 77
- Tags
- Rating