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Tulving's Long Term Memory - Coggle Diagram
Tulving's Long Term Memory
AO1
Procedural Memory
memory on how to do things
-e.g riding a bike,writing..
Declarative Memory
the cognitive information retrieved from explicit memory; knowledge that can be declared
meaningful events
two types, episodic and semantic
episodic
Personal experiences
time stamped
allow for us to 'time travel'
E.g Christmas two years ago
semantic
memory for general knowledge about the world
necessary for us to use language: stores organised knowledge of language and concepts
don't remember how we learnt these things
Tulving proposed that there are 3 long-term memory stores and that the msm is too simplistic and inflexible
AO3
Strengths
Supporting Evidence- HM; episodic memory was severely impaired (brain damage); cannot recall from past, semantic memory was unaffected (still understood meaning of words), E.g couldn't recall stroking a dog, but know what a dog is
Application- pps who had mild memory impairment, who took training to improve episodic memory performed better on a test of episodic memory compared to a control group showing it is possible to improve separate types of LTM, can help improve memory which allow them to lead more normal lives as they grow
Weaknesses
Supporting Evidence CA- HM was able to improve accuracy on a mirror tracing task, even though he forgot he practiced it, the procedural was not damaged.
Supporting Evidence CA- HM - epilepsy caused seizures so hippocampus was removed so supporting evidence comes from a single pps - surgically altered brain, limited generalisability of evidence to wider target pop, difficult to apply support to theory