Reductionist as it reduces complex memory structures to three unitary stores.
- Shallice & Warington(1970)-case study of brain damaged patient KF who was unable to store visual information but not verbal.
- MSM-STM has acoustic encoding. Evidence shows STM is more than unitary store.
Research has been carried out in an artificial lab setting.
- Sperling used unusual memory tasks unlike how memory is used daily.
- Research therefore lacks external validity.
- Sample from different age groups and people with above average intelligence=findings cannot be generalised to whole population.
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