Working Memory Model

Question 1

What is the Central Executive?

Answer 1

The master store of the WMM, responsible for directing information to the appropriate slave system.

Question 2

What is the Phonological Loop?

Answer 2

A slave system of the WMM used for processing sounds and auditory information

Question 3

What is the Visuospatial Sketchpad?

Answer 3

A slave system of the WMM used for processing visual and spatial information.

Question 4

What is the Episodic Buffer?

Answer 4

The most recently added salve system of the WMM, responsible for integrating information to make sense for the LTM.

Question 5

What is one strength of the WMM?

Answer 5

Evidence from case studies - KF - damaged his verbal information but not visual suggesting his phonological loop is affected and suggest it is separate to other subsystems.

Question 6

What is one weaknesss of the WMM?

Answer 6

There is lack of clarity of what the CE actually is. This therefore suggests the human memory is more complex than examined by.