The Working Memory Model Flashcards

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What is the working memory model

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  • Refers to an explainations of how one aspect of STM is organised and how it functions.
  • The WMM is concerned with part of the mind that is active when we are temporiliy storing
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What is the central executive

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  • Refers to an attentional process that monitors incoming data, makes decisions and allocates slave systems to tasks
  • The Central Executive has a very limited processing capacity
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How many slave systems are there and what are they

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Phonological loop
Visuospatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer

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What is the phonological loop

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One of the slave systems that deals with auditory information and preserves the order in which the information arrives.

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What are the 2 subdivisions o fthe phonological loop

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The phonological store
The articulatory process

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What is the phonological store and articulatory process and the capacity of the phonological loop

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  • The phonological store: stores the words you hear
  • The articulatory process: which allows maintenance rehearsal (repeating sounds or words in a loop to keep them in working memory while they are needed)
  • The capacity of the Phonological loop is 2 seconds
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What is the Visuospatial sketchpad (VSS) and what is its capacity?

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*The second slave system and it stores visual and/or spatial information when required
-Has a limited capacity of 3-4 objects

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What are the two subdivisions of the VSS and what do they do

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The visual cache-Stores visual data.
The inner scribe: records the arrangement of objects in the visual field

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What is the episodic buffer

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This was added to the model by Baddeley in 2000. It is a temporary store for information, integrating the visual, spatial and verbal information processed by other stores and maintaining a sense of time sequencing has a limited capcity of 4 chunks the episodic biffer links woring memory to LTM and wider cognitive process such as perception

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