Working Memory Model

Question 1

How is the clinical evidence of the WMM a strength?

Answer 1

Case study of KF, had poor STM auditory ability but normal visual info processing
-Damaged phonological loop but visuo-spatial sketchpad intact

Question 2

How can the clinical evidence that supports WMM also be a limitation (Counter)

Answer 2

KF may have had other cognitive impairments
-Trauma from motorcycle accident may have affected his cognitive performance, not just brain injury

Question 3

How can Dual-task performances provide a strength for WMM?

Answer 3

Baddeley et al.
pps who carried out 1 visual and verbal task simultaneously has similar performance to when tasks done seperately
-when tasks were 2 verbal and 2 visual, performance declined
-Shows must be seperate subsystems as perf lowere when competition in same store

Question 4

How can the nature of the central executive be a limitation?

Answer 4

Baddeley said himself that the CE is the most important but least understood
-May have different subcomponents itself
-May be limited theory