The working memory model

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What does the working memory model explain? It explains how the short-term memory is organised and functions.
What are the main sections of the STM? Central executive, phonological loop, vio-spatial sketchpad, episodic buffer
What is the Central executive's role? It monitors incoming data, makes decisions and allocated slave systems to tasks.
What is the capacity of the Central executive? The capacity is very limited
What does the phonological loop do? it deals with auditory information, and preserves the order in which the information arrives
What two stores is the phonological loop divided into? Phonological store, articulatory process
What does the phonological store do? It stores the words you hear
What does the articulatory process do? Allows maintenance rehearsal
what is the capacity of the articulatory process? Two seconds worth of what you can say
What does the Visio-spatial sketchpad do? Stores visial/spation information when required
What is the VSS subdivided into? Visual Cache Inner Scribe
What does the Visual Cache do? Stores the visual data
What does the Inner Scribe do? records the arrangements of objects in the visual field
Who added in the episodic buffer? Baddeley
What does the Episodic buffer do? temporary store for information and maintaining a sense of time sequencing.
What clinical evidence is there for the WWM? Shallice and Warrington study in KF. He couldn't recall verbal information but he could recall visual information normally
What is a limitation of the WMM? There is lack of clarity over the central executive. It needs to be more than just 'attention'- therefore the WMM has not been fully explained
What is a strength of the WMM? Baddeley found that duel-task performance supports the separate existence of different stores. Participants had trouble doing two visual task at the same time
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