Ravi hit his head in a cycling accident. Afterwards, he could not remember the accident or anything he did on the day before it. He still knew that Paris is the capital of France and what everyday words mean. He could still ride a bicycle and tie his shoelaces.
Use your knowledge of episodic, semantic and procedural memory to explain Ravi's behaviour.
70 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 1.1 Memory, covering 1.1.1 Processes of memory, 1.1.2 Types of memory, 1.1.3 Multi-store model of memory, 1.1.4 Features of each memory store, 1.1.5 Primacy and recency effects, 1.1.6 Working memory model components, 1.1.7 Features of working memory components, 1.1.8 Dual processing tasks, 1.1.9 Reconstructive memory theory, 1.1.10 Bartlett's War of the Ghosts study, and 1.1.11 Factors affecting accuracy of memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.