MEMORY: working memory model A01

Question 1

what is the working memory model?

Answer 1

a representation of the short-term memory model, it suggests that STM is a dynamic process of processing different types of information .

Question 2

What are the five aspects of the working memory model?

Answer 2

-central executive
- phonological loop
-long-term memory
-viso-spatial sketchpad
-episodic buffer

Question 3

what is the central execuative?

Answer 3

A component of the WMM that co-ordinates activities of the three subsystems in memory.

Question 4

what does the central executive system allow?

Answer 4

the allocation of processing resources to those activities

Question 5

what is the phonological loop?

Answer 5

a component of the WMM that processes information in terms of sound. includes both written and spoken materials.

Question 6

what is the viso-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 6

a componenet of the WMM that processes visual and spatial information in a mental space called our ‘inner eye’

Question 7

what is the episodic buffer?

Answer 7

a component of the WMM that brings together material from the other subsystems into a single memory rather than separates strands