Working Memory Model - Baddelely & Hitch

Question 1

Central Executive

Answer 1

Limited capacity - has to give tasks and co-ordinate ones to give out to slave systems. Is the ‘boss’.

Question 2

Phonological Loop

Answer 2

• Processes auditory info (coding is acoustic)
• Preserves the order of info
• Divided into two : Phonological store = ‘inner ear’, what you hear, holds it, like in a convo.
• Articulatory control system = ‘inner voice’, used for words that are heard or seen which are silently repeated (looped), an inner voice used for completing maintenance rehearsal.

Question 3

Visuo-spatial Sketchpad

Answer 3

• Slave system
• Stores visual and spatial info (eg: visualising yourself in your house to remember how many doors you have)
• Visual cache (storing info on visual items) + Inner scribe (storing arrangements)
• Capacity limited (3-4 items)

Question 4

Episodic Buffer

Answer 4

• Integrates info into single ‘episode’.
• Added later because realised there needed to be a general store space, is an extra storage area.
• Integrates info from the other 3 (and LTM).
• Capacity about 4 chunks
• Sends info to LTM

Question 5

Ethics

Question 6

Applications to society

Question 7

Comparisons

Question 8

How good is the research