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Memory

Types of long-term memory

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Overview

Tulving's episodic, semantic and procedural memory, the difference between explicit and implicit memory, and the evidence from Clive Wearing, HM and brain scanning, with the limitations of that evidence.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Process

Which types of long-term memory are explicit, and which is implicit?

Process

Why is procedural memory difficult to explain in words?

Key term

What is procedural memory?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Who proposed that long-term memory is divided into episodic, semantic and procedural memory?

    Model answer

    Tulving (1985), who argued that the multi-store model's single long-term store was too simple.

  2. 2

    What is episodic memory?

    Model answer

    The long-term store for personal experiences and events, such as a birthday party, which is time-stamped and includes details of the context and the emotions felt.

  3. 3

    What three elements are combined in an episodic memory?

    Model answer

    When and where the event happened, the specific details of the people, objects and behaviours involved, and the emotions felt at the time.

  4. 4

    What is semantic memory?

    Model answer

    The long-term store for knowledge of the world, such as facts, the meanings of words and concepts, which is not time-stamped and is shared with other people.

  5. 5

    What is procedural memory?

    Model answer

    The long-term store for how to do things, such as riding a bike or driving, which is recalled automatically without conscious effort.

  6. 6

    Which types of long-term memory are explicit, and which is implicit?

    Model answer

    Episodic and semantic memory are explicit (declarative) because they are consciously recalled; procedural memory is implicit because it is recalled without conscious awareness.

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