The working memory model

Question 1

who and when was the working memory model made ?

Answer 1

Baddeley and Hitch 1974

Question 2

what is the working model ?

Answer 2

an updated model of short term memory

Question 3

what is the function of the central executive ?

Answer 3

an attentional process that monitors incoming info
- decides which info is attended to and directs into the slave systems

Question 4

coding of central executive

Answer 4

processes info in all sensory forms

Question 5

capacity of central executive

Answer 5

very limited
- can only cope with 1 piece of info at a time

Question 6

evaluation of central executive

Answer 6

• central executive is vague and doesn’t really explain anything despite being the main component of the model
• it is not clear how it works or what it does
• Baddeley said ‘ the central executive is the most important but least understood of WMM’

Question 7

function of phonological loop

Answer 7

deals with auditory information and the order of the information

Question 8

what was the phonological loop divided into in 1986?

Answer 8

divided into the primary acoustic store (inner ear) and articulatory process (inner voice)

Question 9

function of inner ear

Answer 9

stores the words you hear

Question 10

function of inner voice

Answer 10

used to rehearse verbal info from the auditory store

Question 11

duration of phonological loop ?

Answer 11

1.5 sec to 2 sec
but can be maintained by rehearsal

Question 12

coding of phonological loop ?

Answer 12

auditory info (sound)

Question 13

capacity of phonological loop ?

Answer 13

limited
- how much can be spoken out loud in 2 sec

Question 14

outline the research peformed by baddeley that supports that the inner voice of the phonological loop is a temprary store ?

Answer 14

research findings suggest that lists of short words are remembered better than longer words
- short words can be silently articulated faster than longer words and therefore more of them can be articulated in the 1-2 sec time frame

Question 15

what is the function of the visuospatial sketch pad ?

Answer 15

its a temporary store for visual and spatial items

Question 16

hat is the coding of the visuospatial sketch pad ?

Answer 16

visual mental pictures

Question 17

what is the capacity of the visuospatial sketch pad ?

Answer 17

limited to 3 or 4 objects

Question 18

what is the name of the researcher that subdivided the VSS ?

Answer 18

Logie

Question 19

what did Logie subdivide the VSS into ?

Answer 19

• the visual cache
• the inner scribe

Question 20

hat does the visual cache do ?

Answer 20

stores visual data

Question 21

what does the inner scribe do ?

Answer 21

records the arrangement of objects in the visual field

Question 22

what is the episodic buffer ?

Answer 22

a general store which was added later to account for things that use both visual and acoustic info

Question 23

who introduced the episodic buffer ?

Answer 23

Baddeley