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Types of LTM - Coggle Diagram
Types of LTM
Procedural memory:
Memory of how to do things - action, skills
Require repetition and practise
Difficult to explain but can be easy to perform
An automatic response
Semantic memory:
declarative
Explicit memory
Facts and knowledge
Start as episodic memories
Lose their association with particular events, knowledge only remains.
Episodic memory:
declarative
Personal memories of events
Explicit memory
Includes details of an event, context it was in + emotions associated with it.
Evidence for different types of LTM:
Heindal et al (1988)
Huntingtons Disease: new facts could be learnt but new motor skills could not.
Shows procedural and declarative are separate systems.
HM + Clive Wearing
Episodic and semantic memory was damaged but their procedural memory stayed intact.
Tulving (1989)
Normal participants had brain scans
Episodic was active, some frontal lobes were active, compared to semantic was active and so was the back cortex.
Suggests that semantic and episodic memory are two separate types of LTM.