Long Term Memory - Tulving (1972)

The video explores the concept of long-term memory, initially introduced in the 1890s and formalized in the 1960s by Atkinson and Schiffrin. It discusses Endel Tulving's triptych of long-term memories: procedural, semantic, and episodic. Procedural memory involves skills and actions, semantic memory stores factual information, and episodic memory records personal experiences. Cohen and Squire later simplified this into declarative and procedural categories. Research on amnesic patients supports these distinctions, showing that procedural memory can be retained even when declarative memory is impaired. The video concludes by encouraging further exploration of memory structures.

Which type of memory is responsible for knowing how to perform tasks like riding a bike?

• Procedural memory

• Declarative memory

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

What type of memory allows us to remember facts about the world, such as the capital of a country?

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

• Implicit memory

• Episodic memory

How did Cohen and Squire categorize long-term memory?

• As episodic and semantic

• As declarative and procedural

• As conscious and unconscious

• As personal and impersonal

What type of memory is affected in amnesic patients who cannot form new memories of personal experiences?

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

• Implicit memory

• Episodic memory

What was Tulving's significant contribution to the study of memory?

• He discovered the concept of short-term memory.

• He focused solely on procedural memory.

• He proposed the tripartite model of long-term memory.

• He unified all types of memory into one model.