Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The working memory model
- AO1
- outline
- functional
- focuses on STM
- separate components have
different specialisations
- 4 components
- 1) CENTRAL EXECUTIVE
- 3) VISUO-SPATIAL SCETCHPAD
- stores visual/spatial info
- 4) EPISODIC BUFFER
- long-term memory
- added in 2000
limited capacity
holds combined information
- 2) PHONOLOGICAL LOOP
- phonological store
(inner ear)
- holds verbal information
limited capacity (two sec)
- articulatory process
(inner voice)
- verbal rehearsal
- deals with auditory
information
- - modality-free
- controls attention
- limited capacity
- supporting evidence
- Baddeley (1975)
short words are easier to recall
- there is no difference
when you repeat
something at the same
time
- Hitch and Baddeley (1976)
doing two tasks which
involve the same
component at the same
time is difficult
- case studies
(brain damaged people)
- KF
- forgetting auditory info faster
than visual one
- SC
- couldn't learn word pairs,
presented out loud
- LH
- spatial tasks better than visual
- AO2
- strengths
- explanatory power
- explains many observations
- supporting evidence
- a lot of supporting information
- recognises there are
different kinds of STM
- limitations
- description of Central Executive is too vague
- Damasio (1985)
centre executive is not unitary
- research is mostly lab based
- low ecological validity
- Baddeley and Hitch (1974)