WMM

Question 1

WMM

Answer 1

Explains how STM is organised and functions. Is concerned with the part of the brain that is active when we are temporarily storing and manipulating information

Question 2

Components of the WMM

Answer 2

Central executive
Phonological Loop
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer

Question 3

Central Executive

Answer 3

Supervisory role
Monitors incoming data
divides our limited attention and allocates it to different subsystems
Doesn’t store information

Question 4

Phonological Loop

Answer 4

Deals with auditory info and preserves the order information arrives in

Question 5

Phonological Loop subdivisions

Answer 5

Phonological store: stores the words you hear
Articulatory process: allows maintenance rehearsal

Question 6

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 6

Stores visual spatial information and has limited capacity

Question 7

Visuo-spatial sketchpad subdivisions

Answer 7

Visual cache: stores visual data
Inner scribe: records the arrangement of objects in the visual field

Question 8

Episodic buffer

Answer 8

A temporary store for information. It integrates visual, spatial and verbal info into a single memory and maintains a sense of time sequencing

Question 9

AO3 - Shallice and Warrington

Answer 9

Studied a patient - KF - who had brain damage. KF had poor STM ability when he had to process auditory information but could process visual information. This suggests his PL was damaged but not his VSS.

Question 10

AO3 - Baddeley

Answer 10

Dual-task performance
Ppts carried out a visual and verbal task and performance was similar to when they done the tasks separately. However when both tasks were verbal/visual performance declined substantially - because there is competition for the same subsystem

Question 11

AO3 - LTM

Answer 11

WMM is constricted to only STM. It is not a complete accurate model of memory so has limited application into the everyday processes of human memory.