Memory Flashcards
1
Q
Who was the working memory model proposed by?
A
Baddeley and Hitch
2
Q
What does the WMM do and what are the 4 components?
A
- Explains how STM is organised and how it functions
- looks at the part of the mind which is active when we are temporarily storing and manipulating information
Central executive
The phonological loop- phonological store, articulatory process
Visuo-spatial sketchpad- visual cache, inner scribe
Episodic buffer
3
Q
Describe The Central Executive
A
- Directs attention and makes decisions
- Allocates the slave systems to tasks
- information arrives from the senses or from LTM
- very limited capacity
- modality free coding (manipulates information from all senses)
4
Q
Describe The Phonological Loop
A
- deals with auditory information
- preserves the order of information
- limited capacity
- coded acoustically
- divided into: phonological store and articulatory process
5
Q
Describe the phonological store
A
Inner ear
Holds the words we hear
6
Q
Describe the articulatory process
A
- Used for maintenance rehearsal
- Words we read or hear are silently repeated in a loop
- Has a capacity of approximately 2 seconds worth of words
- Inner voice
7
Q
Describe the visuo-spatial sketchpad
A
- holds static images and manipulates them
- deals with visual and spatial information
- limited capacity: approximately 3-4 objects
- coded visually
- divided into; visual cache, inner scribe
8
Q
Describe the visual cache
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- visual store- holds information about colours, shapes and quantities
9
Q
Describe inner scribe
A
- deals with spatial information (distances, where objects are in relation to others)
10
Q
Describe the episodic buffer
A
- temporary overspill store for information received by the central executive
- integrates information from the CE, VAA, PL, and the LTM
- Modality free coding- can store information from any sense
- limited capacity: approximately 4 chunks
- maintains a sense of time sequencing (records events that are happening)
- links LTM to wider processes such as perception
11
Q
A03 Working memory model
A
+ supporting evidence: Clinical Studies
