Cog : Models of Memory (WORKING MEMORY MODEL) Flashcards
INTRO
The working memory model suggests that STM is not a single store but rather consists of a number of different stores.
Whats the CENTURAL EXECUTIVE
The central executive is an attention control system that monitors and coordinates the operations of the other subordinate components, which are called slave systems. The central executive has the capacity to focus attention, to divide attention between two or more sources, and to switch attention from one task to another.
PHONOLOGICAL LOOP / INNER EAR
The phonological loop is the auditory component of STM and it is divided into two components. The first component is the inner voice, which can hold information in a verbal form.
The second component is inner ear. It holds auditory memory traces. The inner ear can receive information directly from sensory memory in the form of auditory material.
VISUOSPATIAL SKETCHPAD
The visuospatial sketchpad is the visual component of STM. It is a temporary store for visual and spatial information.
EPISODIC BUFFER
The episodic buffer temporarily holds several sources of information active at the same time, while you consider what is needed in the present situation. This means - auditory and visual information together.
The role of the buffer is to act as a temporary and passive display store until the information is needed - much like a loading screen on a computer - but it has limited capacity.
STUDY 1 RESEARCHER
Conrad and Hull
S1 AIM
nature of encoding in STM
S1 PROCEDURE
Showed participants a random series of 6 consonants and asked them to remember them.
2 conditions - acoustically similar and acoustically dissimilar words.
They then had to write them down in serial order.
S1 FINDINGS
Participants made frequent errors of recall, they also found it hard to recall strings of letters that sounded similar.
S1 CONCLUSION
We convert visual material acoustically in the STM and we find it difficult to distinguish things that sound the same - acoustic confusion.
