WMM: Dual Tasks

Question 1

What do dual tasks studies aim to do?

Answer 1

Look at whether or not we can do two things at once

Question 2

How did Baddeley investigate the WMM?

Answer 2

Gave participants a simple tracking task while carrying out an imagery task at the same time

Question 3

What did Baddeley find?

Answer 3

Pps had great difficulty in doing both these tasks at once as they both involved using the visuo-spatial sketchpad, when asked to do the tracking task with a verbal task instead, pps could do this successfully

Question 4

What did Baddeley conclude?

Answer 4

When carrying out two tasks that require the same component of the STM it is hard to do them at the same time. When carrying out two tasks that require two different components of STM, can do them well together

Question 5

What is a strength of the WMM?

Answer 5

Clinical evidence, KF’s case study supports the WMM to show that there are different stores in the STM

Question 6

What is another strength of the WMM?

Answer 6

Dual task performance supports the WMM as it shows that 2 tasks can happen at the same time if they are from different components

Question 7

What is a limitation of the WMM?

Answer 7

The central executive is the most important but there least understood component