Working Memory Model - AO1 Flashcards
Who came up with the WMM?
Baddely and Hitch in 1974.
What did the researchers assume about MSM?
Baddely assumed that the MSM was far too simplistic.
What did Baddely suggest about the STM?
that is has two separate stores which are for visual processing and for processing sounds.
What was Baddely concerned with?
The part of the mind that is active when we are temporarily storing or manipulating information such as mental arithmetic.
What are the parts of the WMM?
STM
Central Executive
Phonological Loop
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Episodic Buffer
LTM
What are the two branches of the Phonological loop?
Phonological store
Articulatory processes
what are the two branches of the visuospatial sketchpad?
Visual cache
Inner scribe
What does the central executive do?
Oversees everything that is happening in the STM
Directs attention to particular tasks and determines how the brains resources are best used
Zero storage capacity - can’t multitask
What does the phonological loop do?
It is a slave system with limited capacity
Deals with auditory information with its two branches
What does the phonological store and the articulatory process do?
Phonological store - holds the words we hear
Articulatory process - plays words silently on loop as a form of maintenance rehearsal
What does the visuospatial sketchpad do?
Visual and spatial information is temporarily stored.
Visual = how things look
Spatial = stores arrangement of objects in the visual field
What does the visual cache and inner scribe do?
Visual cache - stores info such as form and colour of objects
Inner scribe - stores arrangement of objects in the visual field.
What does the episodic buffer do?
WMM was updated in 2000 to include a more general store
Combines information from the central executive, phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad
Maintains a sense of time sequencing - recording events
Sends information to the LTM
