The working memory model Flashcards
1
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Outline the central executive
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- it’s an attentional process that monitors incoming data, makes decisions and allocates slave systems to tasks
- has a limited storage capacity
2
Q
Outline the phonological loop
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- deals with auditory info
3
Q
Outline the visuo-spatial sketchpad
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- according to Baddeley has limited capacity of 3-4 items
4
Q
Outline the episodic buffer
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- temporary store for info
- limited capacity of about 4 chunks
5
Q
give clinical evidence
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- Shallice and Warringtons study of KF
- Kf had poor STM ability for audibal info but could process visual info, just his phonological loop had been damaged
- supports existence of separate STM stores
6
Q
What is the phonological store
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- it stores the words you hear
7
Q
What is the articulatory process
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- allows maintenance rehearsal
8
Q
What is the Visual cache responsible for
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- storing visual data
9
Q
What is the inner scribe responsible for
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- records the arrangements of objects in the visual field
