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
Has practical applications for example its used to help children with impaired memory
Imcreaing internal validity

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