The working memory model

Question 1

Who created this

Answer 1

Badelely and Hitch (1974)

Question 2

Central executive

Answer 2

Allocates the slave systems to tasks.

has limited capacity

Question 3

Phonological loop

Answer 3

Deals with auditory information and is divided into the Phonological store and articulatory process.
(Also has a limited capsity)

Question 4

The phonological store

Answer 4

Holds the words you hear (inner ear)

Question 5

Atriculatory process

Answer 5

Used to maintain words you hear or see (inner voice)

Question 6

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 6

Visual (what things look like) and spatial (physical relation with things) are temorarily stored here,
Logie (1995) split this into a visual cache and an inner scribe.

Question 7

Visual cache

Answer 7

Stores info about visual items (form and colour)

Question 8

Inner scribe

Answer 8

Stores the arrangement of objects in the visual field

Question 9

Episodic Buffer

Answer 9

A general store for the phinological loop and the sketchpad

Question 10

Evaluation 1 (strength)

Answer 10

Evidence of dual task performance supports the existence of the central executive. Task one occupied the central executive. task 2 either occupied just the articulatory loop or the loop and executive. Task 1 was was slower when task 2 involved the two systems.

Question 11

Evaluation 1 (strength) (dual task performance)

Answer 11

Evidence of dual task performance supports the existence of the central executive. Task one occupied the central executive. task 2 either occupied just the articulatory loop or the loop and executive. Task 1 was was slowe when task 2 involved the two systems.

Question 12

Evaluation 2 (limit)

Answer 12

The central executive is too vague and probably more complex than stated.