Working Memory Model (WMM) Flashcards
Who was it by?
Baddeley & Hitch 1974
What causes the working memory to be interrupted?
- Overload of info
- Distractions
- Overwork
What did WMM focus on?
WMM only looked into STM
What are the different departments called?
- Central Executive (The Boss)
- Visuospatial sketchpad
- Episodic Buffer
- Phonological loop
Name 4 points about the phonological loop?
- Limited capacity
- deals with auditory info & preserves word order
- unable to retain any vocab learned in a different language
- Baddeley further subdivided it into;
- phonological store (holds words that were heard)
- Articulatory process (holds words heard/seen & silently repeats them on a loop- inner voice)
What is the phonological similarity effect?
- more difficult to remember similar sounding words & letters than dissimilar sounding words & letters
- isn’t seen with semantically similar & dissimilar words- only with acoustic patterns (phonological similarity effect)
Name the 3 key points and functions for the Central Executive?
- limited capacity
- works in any modality (semantic, acoustic, visual)
- Key to the memory- functions include;
- determines how resources are allocated in slave system (problem solving, arithmetic, strategic thinking)
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
VISUAL- what stuff looks like SPATIAL- relationship between things -limited capacity -holds info when initially processed when recalled from STM -inner scribe -spatial movement
What is the Episodic Buffer?
- deals with different types of info
- job is to integrate info
- limited capacity
- general store
EVALUATION- Supporting
S- Baddeley & Hitch/ Robbins et al/ Williams syndrome/ K.F
EVALUATION-Conflicting
reductionist
forget individual differences- people may just have a good memory
EVALUATION-Other evidence
multi-store model of memory
EVALUATION-usefulness
U- practical application- working environment/ giving instructions/ learning styles
EVALUATION-Testability
T- main way t test is by using a corsi block &observe & draw activities
