Baddley & Hitch Working Memory Model

Question 1

How does the memory work?

Answer 1

• Sense organs feed into the STSS
• STSS filters info into STM
• STM runs motor programmes
• STM feeds into LTM
• LTM sends requested info to STM.

Question 2

What are Sense Organs?

Question 3

What is the STSS and it’s characteristics?

Answer 3

Short Term Memory Store
• Temporary storage facility
• 0.5 seconds - 1 second duration
• Stores lots of information
• Filters info through Selective Attention
• Receives info from sense organs

Question 4

What is the STM and it’s characteristics?

Answer 4

Short Term Memory
• Stores 5 - 9 pieces of info at a time
• Store for 20-30 seconds
• Receives info from STSS
• Requests Motor Programmes from our LTM
• Runs our Motor Programmes

Question 5

What is the LTM and its characteristics?

Answer 5

Long Term Memory
• Stores info including Motor Programmes
• Infinite Capacity
• Stores indefinitely
• Sends requested info to STM

Question 6

Something is learnt when…

Answer 6

Something is learnt when it’s in the LTM

Question 7

Which theorists created the working memory model?

Answer 7

Baddley and Hitch

Question 8

What 4 things are in the working memory model?
Hint: CPVE

Answer 8

• Central Executive
• Phonological Loop
• Visio-spatial Sketchpad
• Episodic Buffer

Question 9

What is the Central Executive role in the working memory model?

Answer 9

• Drives the whole system
• Allocates data to the components
• Deals with cognitive tasks such as mental arithmetic and problem-solving.

Question 10

What is the PHONOLOGICAL LOOP role in the working memory model

Answer 10

• Temporary storage system for auditory information
• Subdivided into the phonological store and articulating process

Question 11

What is the PHONOLOGICAL STORE also known as?

Answer 11

The Inner Ear

Question 12

What is the ARTICULATORY PROCESS also known as and what does it do?

Answer 12

The Inner Voice
- Rehearses words to keep them in working memory whilst needed.

Question 13

What is the VISUO-SPATIAL SKETCHPADS role in the working memory model?

Answer 13

• Responsible for dealing with visual and spatial information
• Subdivides into the visual cache and the inner scribe

Question 14

What does the VISUAL CACHE do?

Answer 14

Stores visual data such as shape and colour.

Question 15

What does the INNER SCRIBE do?

Answer 15

Records the arrangements of objects and transfers information to the central executive.

Question 16

What is the role of the EPISODIC BUFFER in the working memory model?

Answer 16

• Temporary store that integrates information from the other components.
• Makes events occur in a continuing sequence
• The link between the working memory and the long term memory.

Question 17

What are the predictions of the working memory model?

Answer 17

If two tasks make use of the same component, they cannot be performed successfully together.

However if two tasks make use of different components, it should be possible to perform them together as well as separately.