the short term memory

Question 1

who made the working memory model (WMM) and when?

Answer 1

Baddeley and Hitch in 1974

Question 2

what is the role of the central executive?

Answer 2

-boss of the WMM
-controls attention and directs information to the 2 slave systems
-can process information from any sensory modality.

Question 3

what are the 2 slave systems in the working memory model?

Answer 3

the phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketch pad

Question 4

what is the role of the phonological loop?

Answer 4

a temporary storage system for verbal information

Question 5

what 2 components are in the phonological loop?

Answer 5

the articulatory control system and the phonological store

Question 6

what does the articulatory control system allow for?

Answer 6

allows for subvocal repetition of acoustic information

Question 7

what is the phonological store (+ what is its capacity)?

Answer 7

a temporary storage space for coding acoustic information
- has a limited capacity

Question 8

what is the role of the visuo-spatial sketch pad?

Answer 8

temporary storage system for visuo and spatial information

Question 9

what are the 2 components of the visio-spatial sketch pad?

Answer 9

inner scribe and visual cache

Question 10

what is the role of the inner scribe?

Answer 10

to deal with metal images

Question 11

what is the role of the visual cache (+what is its capacity)?

Answer 11

codes visual and spatial information
- has a limited capacity

Question 12

when was the episodic buffer introduced?

Answer 12

year 2000

Question 13

what is the role of the episodic buffer?

Answer 13

binds and intergrades information from all components and passed it into the LTM
-codes visual and acoustic information
-has a limited capacity

Question 14

what case study supports the WMM?

Answer 14

case study of KF

Question 15

what happened to KF?

Answer 15

-injured in motorcycle incident
-after accident he was able to recall stores information from his LTM but had issues with his STM

Question 16

what was KF able to remember and not remember?

Answer 16

able to remember visual images (e.g. faces) but not acoustic information (sounds)

Question 17

what does the case study of KF suggest?

Answer 17

suggests there is 2 types of information in the STM one for visual information and one for acoustic information

Question 18

what does KF case study support?

Answer 18

supports 2 slave systems and the idea of multi component STM system.

Question 19

what is one issue with the WMM?

Answer 19

it only focuses on STM and the link between WMM and the LTM is not fully explained.

Question 20

what does the WMM provide detail on?

Answer 20

detailed description of our STM

Question 21

what does the WMM provide no information on?

Answer 21

provides no information on how information is processed and transferred from our STM to our LTM and back again .

Question 22

as a result of this what is the WMM?

Answer 22

incomplete model of memory as it needs other theories/models to be able to gain a complete picture of it.

Question 23

what does research examining the WMM often demonstrate?

Answer 23

experimental reductionism

Question 24

how does research examining the WMM demonstrate experimental reductionism?

Answer 24

as it attempts to examine behaviour by relying on individual variables operationalised in laboratory experiments