WMM- memory

Question 1

What is the Working memory model?

Answer 1

A representation of the short term memory.

Suggests the STM is a dynamic processor of different types of information using subunits co-ordinated by the Central Executive

Question 2

What are the four component of the wmm

Answer 2

• Central Executive
• visuo-spatial sketchpad
• phonological loop
• Episodic buffer

Question 3

What is the central executive?

Capacity?

Storage?

Answer 3

Component of STM which coordinates activities of three subsystems in the memory.
Manages incoming data and allocates it to the different ‘slave systems’
in control of your attention
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Capacity= limited
Storage= none
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Question 4

What is the visuo- Spatial sketchpad?

Capacity?

What are it’s two different parts?

Answer 4

Component of wmm that processes visual and spatial information.

Capacity= limited, approximately 3-4 objects (Baddely 2003)

Robert Logie (1995) divided into these parts:

• visual Cache: store visual data
• Inner Scribe: Records the arrangement of objects in the visual field

Question 5

What is the phonological Loop?

What are it’s two divisions?

Answer 5

Component of wmm that processes info in terms of sound + verbal. Includes written and spoken material

Phonological store:stores words you hear

Articulatory process: allows maintainance rehearsal or words in a ‘loop’ to keep on working memory

Question 6

who proposed the working memory model

Answer 6

Baddeley and Hitch (1974)

Question 7

What is the episodic buffer

Answer 7

extra storage that integrates information

Question 8

WMM summary part I forget

Answer 8

Easier to do two tasks at same time if processed by different slave systems
Difficult to do 2 tasks if processed by same slave system