the working memory model

Question 1

draw the working memory model

Answer 1

see flash card

includes
- centeral executive
- phonological loop - acticulatory loop and primary acoustic store
- visuo spatial sketchpad

Question 2

what is the centeral executive

Answer 2

controls attention and coordinated the actions of other components
limitted capacity
modality free
intergrates info from phonological loop and visio spatial sketch pad

Question 3

evaluate the central executive

Answer 3

+ dual task experiments, if 2 tasks are dissimilar but interfere with each other they are both competing for limited capacity of CE

Question 4

what is the visio-spatial sketch pad

Answer 4

visual and spatial material, righ hemisphere, 2 tasks using visual and spatial processing interfere in working memory, limited capacity

Question 5

evaluate the visio-spatial sketch pad

Answer 5

+ dual task studies
- lieberman blind people have excelent spatial awareness, seperate visual and spatial

Question 6

describe the phonological loop

Answer 6

articulatory - reherses info verbally, time based capacity, transfer written material to phonological store, explains word length effect

phonological store - sound based code, 2 second capacity unless rehearsed by articulatory

Question 7

evaluate the phonolgical loop

Answer 7

+ Baddeley found similar sounding letter were not recalled as ones that do not sound similar

Question 8

what is the episodic buffer

Answer 8

addition
bind together all info on time and order

Question 9

evaluate the episodic buffer

Answer 9

+ evidence from people with amnesia, cant create LTM but can recall STM, this info was more than what could be retained in phonological loop, must be another component

• new finding, model could be inadequate and not valid