Working Memory Model

Question 1

who designed this model

Answer 1

baddeley

Question 2

what does this model show

Answer 2

how STM is organised/ how it functions

Question 3

what is a central executive

Answer 3

monitors incoming data and assigns roles to the slave systems

Question 4

what is episodic buffer

Answer 4

added in 2000 to model

-temporary stored integrates all memory types

Question 5

what is a visa spatial sketchpad

Answer 5

• slave system

- monitors our visual and spatial info

Question 6

what is articulatory process

Answer 6

allows maintenance rehearsal

can hold up to 2 seconds of things we say

Question 7

what is phonological store

Answer 7

where the words we hear are stored

Question 8

what is the key study

Answer 8

Dual Task Performance by Baddeley

Question 9

Dual task performance study

Answer 9

-Ps carried out 2 verbal/ 2 visual at same time
Ps carried out one verbal and one visual (dual task)
Ps carried out one visual and one verbal separately

performance declined when doing same type of task

-supports 2 slave systems

Question 10

strengths of model

Answer 10

• supporting evidence (dual task)
• shows 2 separate slave systems
• HIGH VAlIDITY

clinical evidence

• KF- had brain injury where auditory was damaged but visual wasn’t damaged.
• HIGH VALIDITY -supports existence of different visual and auditory memory stores

Question 11

weaknesses of model

Answer 11

• central executive lack of clarity
• oversimplified byt some
• Baddeley said most important but least understood
• LACK VALIDITY

-no specification of KF other problems
-eg., trauma of accident may affect his cognitive performance
-challenges supporting evidence
LOW RELIABILITY