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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which if the following psychologists distinguished between types of long term memory?
Baddeley
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Tulving
Milner
- 2. Multiple Choice
One strength of multistore model is that it distinguished between different types of long term memory.
true
false
- 3. Multiple Choice
One strength of working memory model is that it distinguished between different types of long term memory.
true
false
- 4. Multiple Choice
Episodic memory involves the recall of...
personal events
knowledge of the world
how to do things
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which type of memory involves recall of factual knowledge?
episodic
semantic
procedural
- 6. Multiple Choice
Procedural memory is about...
knowing that...
knowing how...
- 7. Multiple Choice
Procedural memory can be categorised a type of...
implicit memory
explicit memory
- 8. Multiple Choice
Semantic memory is a type of ....
implicit memory
explicit memory
- 9. Multiple Choice
Episodic memories tend to be more...
implicit
explicit
- 10. Multiple Choice
Tulving's research supports the multistore model.
true
false
- 11. Multiple Choice
Episodic memory has been likened to a...
diary
encyclopaedia
instruction manual
- 12. Multiple Choice
An example of an episodic memory would be: Remembering....
a strumming pattern on your guitar
your first guitar lesson
that E minor is an easy chord to play
- 13. Multiple Choice
An example of semantic memory would be...remembering...
how many legs a beetle has
the day a beetle landed in your drink and you nearly drank it
how to drive a VW Beetle car (once you are an experienced driver)
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not true of episodic memories?
they are time stamped (we know when they happened)
they are linked to other events in our lives
they are require conscious recall
they are infallible
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not likened to semantic memory?
encyclopaedia
dictionary
diary
- 16. Multiple Choice
Semantic memory is less fallible than episodic memory, e.g distortion and forgetting is less common for this type of memory.
true
false
- 17. Multiple Choice
Procedural memory is not recalled consciously.
true
false
- 18. Multiple Choice
Once a skill is well learned and has become automatic, we call it...
procedural
explicit
declarative
voluntary
- 19. Multiple Choice
Clive Wearing's amnesia was caused by a brain infection (encephalitis) and he had severely impaired...
episodic memory
procedural memory
semantic memory
- 20. Multiple Choice
HM's amnesia was caused by....
a brain infection
surgery for epilepsy
head injury in a motorbike accident
- 21. Multiple Choice
HM's semantic memory was unimpaired as he...
knew what a dog was
couldn't remember stroking a dog
could do an impression of a dog
knew the route of his walk with his dog
- 22. Multiple Choice
Clive Wearing's procedural memory was unimpaired. We know this because....
He could still sing and play the piano at an expert standard
He could not remember his choir rehearsals
He could tell you where to find middle C was on the piano
he could no longer read music
- 23. Multiple Choice
Case studies of brain damaged patients like Clive and HM support's Tulving theory that LTM is divided into at least stores because....
one type of LTM can be damaged yet the others are intact
if one type of LTM is damaged,they all show some impairment
they are a rich source of detailed information about one individual person
people may have damage to more than one brain region
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the best limitation of case studies and would be useful AO3 in a question about different types of LTM is that...
we often have no idea what the participant's memory was like before the injury/illness that caused the damage so it is hard to establish cause and effect
they are longitudinal so data may be subjective as a relationship is often formed between researcher and participant
qualitative data collected in a case study is time consuming to analyse
case studies cannot be generalised as they are only done one one person.
- 25. Multiple Choice
If we are unsure which brain regions have been damaged (due to the injury happening spontaneously, i.e. natural circumstances as opposed to surgery) this means there could be a problem with ....
internal validity
reliability
generalisability
mundane realism
- 26. Multiple Choice
Buckner and Peterson said that semantic memory is localised to the...and episodic to the...
left prefrontal cortex and right prefrontal cortex
right prefrontal cortex and left prefrontal cortex
- 27. Multiple Choice
Tulving disagreed with Buckner and Peterson and said episodic memories were linked to the left prefrontal cortex and semantic to the right.
true
false
- 28. Multiple Choice
Tulving's findings about the localisation of episodic and semantic memory suggest that Buckner and Peterson's findings were not....
ecologically valid
reliable
generalisable
socially desirable
- 29. Multiple Choice
Ageing seems to make it more difficult for people to lay down new episodic memories, this evidenced by the fact that they...
find it easier to remember childhood events than things that happened last week
find it easier to remember things that happened last week than childhood events.
- 30. Multiple Choice
Understanding about different types of LTM has important practical applications, for example...
we know where in the brain the different stores are located
we can develop strategies to help older people with their episodic memory
it shows the that models like MSM are reductionist
we should avoid the use of case studies as the credibility of the findings may be questionable.
- 31. Multiple Choice
Who developed an intervention to help older adults with episodic memory?
Sylvie Belleville
Buckner and Peterson
Brenda Milner
Endel Tulving
- 32. Multiple Choice
Why does Tulving think episodic memory is a sub-store of semantic memory?
because he thinks it is impossible to have intact episodic memory and damaged semantic memory
because he thinks it is impossible to have intact semantic memory and damaged episodic memory
- 33. Multiple Choice
Evidence to challenge Tulving's idea of episodic memory as a sub-store of semantic memory comes from Alzheimer research where patients could remember
new events but not new facts
new facts but not new events
- 34. Multiple Choice
Tulving used the expression "autonoetic memory" when talking about episodic memory. He used this term to explain the idea that we know...
what has happened in real life as opposed imagined events or dream content
when an event happened in relation to other events in our lives
about things that have happened in the past but are only able to imagine them from our own point of view
can only remember past events if we are cued by something in the present
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which type of memory is time stamped?
episodic
procedural
semantic
- 36. Multiple Choice
Research into Alzheimers and how it impact different types of LTM can be linked to which of the following issues and debates?
nature versus nurture
ethical issues in psychological research
socially sensitive research
all of these issues and debates
- 37. Multiple Choice
Which brain region is associated with procedural memory but less so with other types f long term memory?
cerebellum
hippocampus
frontal lobe
limbic system
- 38. Multiple Choice
The cerebellum and which other brain region are associated with the procedural memory?
basal ganglia
nucleus accumbens
insula
hippocampus
- 39. Multiple Choice
HM's procedural memory was intact and this was evidenced by the fact that...
the accuracy of his "mirror drawing" improved over time (a skill taught post-surgery)
he was able to play the piano and sing just as he had done before his illness
he was not able to remember previous mirror drawing practice sessions with his psychologist
he was able to recognise his wife and read a newspaper
- 40. Multiple Choice
Tulving's brain imaging research suggest that episodic memories are processed in the anterior (front) of the frontal lobes and semantic memories in posterior (back) of the frontal lobes.
true
false
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