The Working Memory Model

Question 1

Who came up with the working memory model?

Answer 1

Alan Baddeley.and Graham Hitch.

Question 2

what are the main assumptions of the working memory model?

Answer 2

1. Short-term memory isn’t a passive store, but rather a passive store, because it manipulates information.
   2.it is. multi-store model, because it believes that there are different components to the short-term memory.

Question 3

what does the phonological loop deal with?

Answer 3

processes auditory and verbal information.

Question 4

explain the phonological loop.

Answer 4

processes auditory and verbal information.
we convert the written information in sound, by using subvocal rehearsal.
It can be divided in two components:

1. primary acoustic store: stores all of the sound that we hear around us for 1-2 seconds, and filters out everything we don’t need.
2. articulatory process: stores useful information in the working memory , for longer while we need it for an ongoing task.
   subvocal rehearsal occurs in the articulatory process. and the capacity of the articulatory process is anything you can say in 2 seconds.

Question 5

what is the capacity of the articulatory process?

Answer 5

anything you can say in 2 seconds.

Question 6

what is the word-length effect?

Answer 6

we can remember more words which are shorter, when compared to words which are longer.

Question 7

describe the visa-spatial sketchpad.

Answer 7

visual and spatial information is stored in this store.
it can be divided in the:
1. visual cache: deals with visual info.
2.inner scribe: deals with spatial info.

Question 8

describe the episodic buffer.

Answer 8

store which combines information from all 5 senses, including information from the phonological loop , and the visa-spatial sketchpad.

It is multi-modal, because it combines information from multiple senses.

It forms events and experiences, which can then be transferred to the LTM and turned into episodic memories.

Question 9

what is the central executive?

Answer 9

It isn’t a memory store, but rather a system which controls the memory stores.
it has two main jobs:
1. direct the right information to the correct store.
2. Diverts attention across the 3 stores.
It has limited attentional capacity.

Question 10

describe how the central executive and multi-tasking relate.

Answer 10

The central executive has a limited attentional capacity.
If we do too many tasks at once, the central executive may get overloaded, meaning it ran out of attention to allocate to different stores.