Consider memory loss that can be experienced in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

For each item in the list,

identify the
a specific type of LTM the memory is. IE- Explicit (semantic, episodic), Implicit (procedural, classically
conditioned)
b LTM process IE- if Explicit it is a conscious process or implicit memory is an unconscious process
c Type of amnesia (e.g. retrograde or anterograde).

Memory loss typically involved Type of LTM LTM process Type of amnesia
in Alzheimer’s disease

Events—the person may forget episodic explicit retrograde

part or all of an event.

Words or names—the person declarative: semantic explicit retrograde

progressively forgets words
and names of people and
things.

Written and verbal new information but explicit anterograde for directions to a
directions—the person possibly semantic new location (consider retrograde
progressively loses the ability for directions to a familiar
to follow directions. location

Stories on TV, in movies or new information but explicit anterograde

books—the person possibly semantic
progressively loses the ability
to follow stories.

Stored knowledge—over time, semantic explicit retrograde

the person loses known
information such as historical
or political information.

Everyday skills—the person procedural and implicit & explicit retrograde

may progressively lose the semantic
capacity to perform tasks such
as dressing and cooking