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The Working Memory Model Flashcards

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1
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What did Baddeley and Hitch (1974) believe?

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Memory is not just one store but multiple stores

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What did Baddeley and Hitch (197) focus on long term memory or short term memory?

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Short term memory

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What did Baddeley and Hitch (1974) believe about the STM?

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That it is a unitary store

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What did Baddeley and Hitch (1974) believe about the LTM?

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More passive store that hold previous learned materials for the use by the STM when needed

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What is the working memory model (WMM)?

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  • Explanation of how STM is organised and how it function

- Works its the active mind

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Who proposed the working memory model?

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Baddeley and Hitch (1974)

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What are the four different stores of the working memory model?

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  • Centra executive
  • Episodic buffer
  • Visuo-spatial sketchpad
  • Phonological loop
  • Long-term memory
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What is another name for ‘store’ in the working memory model?

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Slave system

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What is the 1st slave system?

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Phonological loop

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What is the 2nd slave system?

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Visuo-spatial sketchpad

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What is the 3rd slave system?

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Episodic buffer

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What is the main purpose of the central executive?

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  • Receive info from the slave systems and long terms memory and perception
  • Then sift, sort and combine this info until decision reached
  • Reasoning and decision making
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What is the main purpose of the phonological loop?

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To hold and rehearse any words that are currently being considered

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What is the phonological loop also know as?

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Inner ear

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What does the phonological loop consist of?

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  • Phonological store

- Articulatory process

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What is the purpose of the phonological store?

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-Store the words you hear

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What is the purpose of the articulatory process?

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Allows the mainlanders rehearsal (repeating sounds in the MWW in order to keep them)

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What is the main purpose of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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To hold static images and to manipulate them

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What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad also know as?

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Inner eye

20
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What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad divided into?

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  • Visual cache

- Inner scribe

21
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What is the purpose of the visual cache in the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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Stores visual data

22
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What is the purpose of the inner scribe in the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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Records arrangement of objects in the visual field

23
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What is the main purpose of the episodic buffer?

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  • Temportay store for information received yet he central executive -Maintain a sense of time frequency
  • Link to the LTM to wider cognitive processes
24
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What is the capacity of the central executive?

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Limited

25
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What is the coding of central executive?

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-Modality free

26
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What is the capacity of the phonological loop?

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2 seconds’ worth of information

27
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What is the coding of the phonological loop?

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Acoustic

28
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What is the capacity of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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3-4 objects

29
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What is the coding of the visua-spatial sketchpad?

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Visual

30
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What is the capacity of the episodic buffer?

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Limited - about 4 chunks

31
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What is the coding of the episodic buffer?

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Modality free

32
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What did Shallice and Warrington (1970) do?

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  • Case study
  • Patient KF
  • Poor STM ability for verbal info
  • Could process visual info normally
33
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What did Shallice and Warrington (1970) conclude?

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  • Phonological loop had been damaged

- Suggest separate visual and acoustic stores

34
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What is the disadvantage of case studies?

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Unique cases of patients who have had a traumatic experience

35
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What store does Baddeley et al (1975) support?

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Visual-spatial sketchpad

36
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What did Baddeley et al (1975) find?

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Found participants had more difficulty doing two visual tasks than doing a visual and verbal task at the same time

37
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What did Baddeley et al (1975) suggest why it is harder to complete two visual tasks at the time?

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-Due their being limited recourses but when doing a visual and verbal task at the same time there is no competition so there is evidence of visuo-spatial sketchpad

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Why is there a lack of clarity of the central executive a limitation?

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As not enough explanation on its specific job, WMM isn’t fully explained

39
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Does the work of Baddeley et al (1975) support the phonological loop as well as the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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Yes

40
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How does Baddeley et al (1975) research support the phonological loop?

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People have difficulty remembering a list of long words due to the limited capacity for rehearsal in the articulatory process but disappears if a person is given a repetitive task (Word length is important)

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Is the WMM supported by cognitive psychologists?

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No

42
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Does brain scanning studies support the WMM?

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Yes

43
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Who studied into the working memory model using brain scanning techniques?

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Bravel et al (1997)

44
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What did Braver et al (1997) do?

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Prefrontal cortex increased in activity when task became harder showing the central executive increase in in activity

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