Working Memory Model

Question 1

Working Memory Model

Answer 1

Alan Baddeley felt STM had more than one store

Question 2

Central Executive

Answer 2

Direct attention to a particular task and determine how the brains resources are allocated

Question 3

Phonological Loop

Answer 3

Deals with auditory info and preserves order of info.
Phonological store - holds the words you hear
Articulatory Process - used for words that are heard or seen and are silently repeated which is a form of maintenance rehearsal

Question 4

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 4

Visual/Spatial info stored here.
Visual cache - stores info about visual items
Inner scribe - stores arrangement of objects in the visual field

Question 5

Episodic Buffer

Answer 5

Receives input from many sources, temporarily stores this info, and then integrates it in order to construct a mental episode of what is being experienced