Working memory model Flashcards
Who developed the WMM
Baddley and Hitch
What does the WMM explain
the organisation and function of the STM
What is the WMM concerned with
The WMM is concerned with the amount of mental space that is active when temporarily storing or manipulating information
How are the components of the WMM different?
The components of the WMM are qualitatively different particularly in terms of coding and capacity
Outline the function of the Central Executive
The central executive plays a supervisory role and monitors incoming data. It will focus and divide our limited attention to tasks, as well as allocating subsystems to tasks.
What is the coding and capacity of the central executive?
The CE has limited processing capacity and does not store information
What is the function of the phonological loop?
The phonological loop deals with auditory information and aims to preserve the order of information when it arrives.
What are the subsystems of the phonological loop?
Phonological store and articulatory processes
What is the phonological store function?
Stores the words that we hear
What is the articulatory processes function?
allows for maintenance rehearsal of information to keep the information in the working memory system.
What is the coding and capacity of the phonological loop
acoustic coding and a capacity of 2 seconds worth of what you can say
what is the function of the visuo-spatial sketchpad
stores visual and spatial data when needed
What is the capacity of the VSS
Baddley 2003 found that the capacity of the VSS was roughly 3-4 items
What are the subsystems of the VSS
visual cache and inner scribe
what is the role of the visual cache
to store visual data
