WMM

Question 1

What are the 4 things that the WMM consists of

Answer 1

Central executive
Phonological loop
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer

Question 2

Describe the central executive

Answer 2

An “attentional process”, its role is to allocate tasks to the 3 slave systems

Question 3

Phonological loop

Answer 3

Consists of the primary accoustic store and the articulatory process (words you hear)

Question 4

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 4

Combines visual and spatial information
It is divided into the inner scribe (handles spatial relationships) and visual cache (information about form and colour)

Question 5

Episodic buffer

Answer 5

Intergrates all types of data processed by the other stores, a link for sending STM to LTM

Question 6

Evaluate WMM

Answer 6

+ Shallice and Warrington study of KF: KF had bad recall of auditory info but good visual info
T: Credible model

+ Studies of dual-task performance: Participants struggled when performing a tasks that used both visual or auditory processing. Central executive has limited capacity (predicted by WMM), slave systems are in competition with each other.
T: Credible model

• Central executive not definied: The term “process” is too vague, lack of comprehensive explaination
  T: Limited understanding