weaknesses

• Objections

  • Overlap between episodic and semantic memories
  • 2002 - Tulving added to theory that episodic memory is a specialised subcategory of semantic memory

  = too deterministic of three types of ltm
• Research lacks control

  • Use of case studies - e.g. KF/HM/Clive Wearing
  • Studies lack generalisability as were not tested prior to illness/accidents so have limited knowledge of cause and effect relationship