The working memory model Flashcards
1
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The working memory model date
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1974
2
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parts of the working memory model
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- Central executive
- visuo-spacial sketchpad
- episodic buffer
- Phonological loop
3
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Central executive
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- attentional process
- sends information to different systems
-does not store information - Incoming information
4
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phonological loop
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- articulatory process allows for maintence rehearsal
- phonological store stores words
- Coding is acoustic
- capacity is 2 seconds worth of words
- stores auditory information
5
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visuo-spatial sketchpad
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- stores visual spatial tasks
- Logie suggests there are two parts cache and inner scribe
- only stores 3-4 objects
6
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inner scribe
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how objects are arranged
7
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cache
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stores visual infomationn
8
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episodic buffer
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- added in 2000 by Baddeley
- combines all the other stores
- temporary information store
- capacity is 4 chunks
9
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strengths
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- KF an amnesia patient with poor STM of verbal info but good visual info proves there are separate stores
- Baddeley found that doing two visual tasks at the same time but doing a visual and verbal task is less difficult as they aren’t competing
10
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Limitations
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- unclear if KF has other cognitive problems
- lack of real life application because studies were in controlled lab environments
- Baddeley himself was not satisfied with the explanation of the CE he says its the most important but least understood part
