The Working Memory Model

Question 1

What’s the central executive?

Answer 1

Controls attention and directs information to slave systems
Has a low capacity
multi modal coding

Question 2

Phonological loop

Answer 2

Coding is auditory and verbal information
The inner ear - holds onto words that are heard
The inner voice - holds onto information by repeating it
Limited capacity of 2 seconds worth of info

Question 3

Visuospatial sketch pad

Answer 3

Coding is visual information
Visual cache - colour and information
Inner scribe - the space between objects

Question 4

Episodic buffer

Answer 4

Where information is stored and integrated

Question 5

What are the strengths of the WMM

Answer 5

Baddeley- proves there are separate stores
Gave two tasks to do
Visual and verbal - good answer because there are separate stores
Verbal and Verbal - poorly answered because the phonological loop is overwhelmed
Shallice
KF had an accident and his STM verbal was affected but STM visual wasn’t
This shows there’s two STM stores

Question 6

What’s the disadvantage of the WMM

Answer 6

The central executive is too vague
It’s the most important store however we have no indication how it works
There should be components within