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TYPES OF LONG-TERM MEMORY
Types of long term memory
Procedural memories
Episodic memory
Procedural memory is remembering how to do something. Procedural memories are typically acquired through repetition and practice. These memories have become automatic. If you try to think too much about the procedural memories it prevents you acting them out. This attention to the step-by-step procedure disrupts the well-learned automatic performance. It is important that procedural memories are automatic so we can focus our attention on other tasks.
Personal memories of events, includes contextual details and emotional tone
They are examples of knowing that- explicit/declarative memories.
Evaluation
Semantic memories
Limitations
- Problems with using studies with brain damage
Semantic memories are knowledge about the world which is shared by everyone.
Semantic memories generally begin as episodic memories because we acquire knowledge based on personal experience. A gradual transition from episodic to semantic memory where the memory slowly loses its association to particular events, so that the information can be generalised as a semantic memory.
Strengths
- Supported by research using brain scanning techniques. Different areas of the brain are active when different kinds of LTMs are active. Episodic memory is associated with the hippocampus and other parts of the temporal lobe and frontal lobe. Semantic memory relies on the temporal lobe. Procedural memory activation is associated with the cerebellum and the basal ganglia and limbic system are involved.