The Working Memory Model Flashcards
What is the working memory model
- 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
What is the central executive
- 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
How many slave systems are there and what are they
3
Phonological loop
Visuospatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer
What is the phonological loop
One of the slave systems that deals with auditory information and preserves the order in which the information arrives.
What are the 2 subdivisions o fthe phonological loop
The phonological store
The articulatory process
What is the phonological store and articulatory process and the capacity of the phonological loop
- 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
What is the Visuospatial sketchpad (VSS) and what is its capacity?
*The second slave system and it stores visual and/or spatial information when required
-Has a limited capacity of 3-4 objects
What are the two subdivisions of the VSS and what do they do
The visual cache-Stores visual data.
The inner scribe: records the arrangement of objects in the visual field
What is the episodic buffer
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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