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2.2: The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) Flashcards

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or what, handles what information?

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  1. The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)
    Or,
  2. Inner eye
    handles non-phonological information
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a what store for what items?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye:

  1. Handles non-phonological information
  2. Is a temporary store for visual and spatial items
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the what between them?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye:

  1. Handles non-phonological information
  2. Is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what)?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye:

  1. Handles non-phonological information
  2. Is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located)
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located).
The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to what their physical environment?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to:
1. Navigate around
2. Interact with
their physical environment

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located).
The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to navigate around and interact with their physical environment, with information being what through the use of mental pictures?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to navigate around and interact with their physical environment, with information being:
1. Coded
2. Rehearsed
through the use of mental pictures

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located).
The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to navigate around and interact with their physical environment, with information being coded and rehearsed through the use of mental pictures.
Who (what year) suggests doing what to the store?

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Logie (1995) suggests sub-dividing the store

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located).
The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to navigate around and interact with their physical environment, with information being coded and rehearsed through the use of mental pictures.
Logie (1995) suggests sub-dividing the store into what?

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Logie (1995) suggests sub-dividing the store into:

  1. A visual cache (VC)
  2. An inner scribe (IS)
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Visual cache (VC)

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A visual cache (VC) is a part of the visuo-spatial sketchpad that stores visual:

  1. Material
  2. Information about form and colour
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Inner scribe (IS)

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An inner scribe (IS) is a part of the visuo-spatial sketchpad that:

  1. Stores information about the physical relationships of items
  2. Records the arrangement of objects in the visual field
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS), or inner eye, handles non-phonological information and is a temporary store for visual and spatial items and the relationships between them (what items are and where they’re located).
The visuo-spatial sketchpad helps individuals to navigate around and interact with their physical environment, with information being coded and rehearsed through the use of mental pictures.
Logie (1995) suggests sub-dividing the store into a visual cache (VC) and an inner scribe (IS).
The inner scribe (IS) handles what relationships and does what?

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The inner scribe (IS):

  1. Handles spatial relationships
  2. Rehearses and transfers information in the visual cache to the central executive
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad stores visual and/or spatial information when what?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad stores:
1. Visual
And/Or,
2. Spatial
information when required
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Research:

Who (what year) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously doing what?

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Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously:

  1. Tracking a moving point of light
  2. Describing the angles on a hollow letter F
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Research:
Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously tracking a moving point of light and describing the angles on a hollow letter F, because both tasks involved what?

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Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously:
1. Tracking a moving point of light
2. Describing the angles on a hollow letter F
,because both tasks involved using the visuo-spatial sketchpad

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Research:
Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously tracking a moving point of light and describing the angles on a hollow letter F, because both tasks involved using the visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Other participants had little difficulty in doing what?

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Other participants had little difficulty in:

  1. Tracking the light
  2. Performing a simultaneous verbal task
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Research:
Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously tracking a moving point of light and describing the angles on a hollow letter F, because both tasks involved using the visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Other participants had little difficulty in tracking the light and performing a simultaneous verbal task, because both tasks involve using what?

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Other participants had little difficulty in tracking the light and performing a simultaneous verbal task, because both tasks involve using the:

  1. Visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)
  2. Phonological loop (PL)
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Research:
Gathercole and Baddeley (1993) found that participants had difficulty simultaneously tracking a moving point of light and describing the angles on a hollow letter F, because both tasks involved using the visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Other participants had little difficulty in tracking the light and performing a simultaneous verbal task, because both tasks involve using the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) and the phonological loop (PL), indicating the visuo-spatial sketchpad to be a what?

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Other participants had little difficulty in tracking the light and performing a simultaneous verbal task, because both tasks involve using the:
1. Visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)
2. Phonological loop (PL)
,indicating the visuo-spatial sketchpad to be a separate slave system

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Research:

Who (what year) reported more interference between what?

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Klauer and Zhao (2004) reported more interference between 2 visual tasks

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Research:

Klauer and Zhao (2004) reported more interference between 2 visual tasks than between what?

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Klauer and Zhao (2004) reported more interference between 2 visual tasks than between:
1. A visual
2. A spatial
task

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Research:
Klauer and Zhao (2004) reported more interference between 2 visual tasks than between a visual and a spatial task, implying what?

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Klauer and Zhao (2004) reported more interference between 2 visual tasks than between a visual and a spatial task, implying the existence of a separate:

  1. Visual cache
  2. Inner scribe
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Evaluation:
As well as showing the phonological loop (PL) and the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) to be located in different brain areas, PET scans also show what with visual tasks?

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As well as showing the:
1. Phonological loop (PL)
2. Visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)
to be located in different brain areas, PET scans also show brain activation in the left hemisphere of the brain with visual tasks

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Evaluation:
As well as showing the phonological loop (PL) and the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) to be located in different brain areas, PET scans also show brain activation in the left hemisphere of the brain with visual tasks and brain activation where with spatial information?

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As well as showing the phonological loop (PL) and the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) to be located in different brain areas, PET scans also show brain activation in the:

  1. Left hemisphere of the brain with visual tasks
  2. Right hemisphere of the brain with spatial information
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Evaluation:
As well as showing the phonological loop (PL) and the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) to be located in different brain areas, PET scans also show brain activation in the left hemisphere of the brain with visual tasks and brain activation in the right hemisphere of the brain with spatial information.
This further supports what?

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This further supports the idea of dividing the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) in a separate:

  1. Visual cache (VC)
  2. Inner scribe (IS)
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Evaluation:

Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature what?

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Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature a dual task technique

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Evaluation:
Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature a dual task technique, where participants have to do what?

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Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature a dual task technique, where participants have to perform 2 simultaneous activities

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Evaluation:
Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature a dual task technique, where participants have to perform 2 simultaneous activities.
However, the actual tasks performed are often what?

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The actual tasks performed are often not ones encountered much in everyday life

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Evaluation:
Studies of the visuo-spatial sketchpad (and the phonological loop) often feature a dual task technique, where participants have to perform 2 simultaneous activities.
However, the actual tasks performed are often not ones encountered much in everyday life and so such studies can be what?

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The actual tasks performed are often not ones encountered much in everyday life and so such studies can be accused of:

  1. Being artificial
  2. Lacking in mundane realism
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad contributes to our understanding of what?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad contributes to our understanding of ‘visual semantics’

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad contributes to our understanding of ‘visual semantics.’
What is this?

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This is the meanings of objects in our visual environment

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad contributes to our understanding of ‘visual semantics.’
This is the meanings of objects in our visual environment.
The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) can access LTM to do what?

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) can access LTM to:
1. Store
2. Retrieve
visuo-spatial information

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad contributes to our understanding of ‘visual semantics.’
This is the meanings of objects in our visual environment.
The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS) can access LTM to store and retrieve visuo-spatial information.
Example

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For example, if someone says to us, ‘Think of something you sit on,’ we can easily retrieve an image of a:
1. Chair
2. Sofa
from LTM

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