LTM psychologists

• Tulving


  • argued that the Multi Store Model of Memory was too simplistic, he suggested that there were different types of LTM
  • Procedural, Episodic, Semantic
• Case Study - CW

  • Case study supports Tulving’s theory of different LTM memory stores
  • Episodic memory was severely impaired, but semantic and procedural memory were seemingly unaffected
• Limitations of case studies of brain damaged patients


  • Lack of control of variables limits the usefulness of what these studies can tell us
  • No information to compare memory before the illness or accident