Working memory model

Question 1

Who created the WMM?

Answer 1

Baddely and Hitch

Question 2

What are the two sections of the visuo spatial sketch pad?

Answer 2

1. visual cache - visual items
2. inner scribe - spatial awareness

Question 3

What is the two sections of the phonological loop?

Answer 3

1. articulatory control process - inner voice
2. phonological store - inner ear

Question 4

What does the central executive do?

Answer 4

determines which information goes to which slave system

Question 5

What are the 3 slave systems?

Answer 5

1. visuo spatial sketch pad
2. episodic buffer
3. phonological loop

Question 6

What type of information does the episodic buffer contain?

Answer 6

any info that doesn’t fit into the visuo spatial sketch pad or the phonological loop

Question 7

What is dual task performance?

Answer 7

performing two activities using two different slave systems
if two activities only use one it will be unsuccessful

Question 8

What is the evaluation of the WMM?

Answer 8

+ support from dual task performance

+ KF motorcycle accident
poor memory for auditory but not for visual

• biologically deterministic
  cannot generalise
• problems with central executive
  vague and not clear - sounds like it’s the same as attention