Memory and emotion - working memory model

Question 1

Working memory

Answer 1

• Baddeley & Hitch (1974) challenged the idea that the STM is a single-store
• Working memory refers to the system temporarily maintaining mental representations that are relevant to the performance of a cognitive task in an active/attentive state.

Question 2

Phonological Loop

Answer 2

• The inner voice
• Hold information in the speech-based form.
• Can be thought of an s a verbal rehearsal loop (e.g remembering a string of numbers by repeating them silently)
• Also used to hold what we are preparing to speak loud

Question 2

Central Executive

Answer 2

• Is “In charge” (by controlling attention) of the other three components.
• Has limited compacity and deals with any cognitively demanding tasks
• It is modality free đ
• Has the capacity to coordinate performance on two separate tasks and attend selectively to one input while inhibiting others

Question 3

Visuospatial sketchpad

Answer 3

• the ‘inner eye’
• It deals with the rehearsal of visual and/or spatial information
• suggest that it has two components:
  
  • Visual cache: stores information about visual form and color
  • Inner scribe: deals with spatial and movement information and is involved in the panning and execution of body/limb movements