MEMORY: The Working Model of Memory

Question 1

Who made the WMM

Answer 1

Baddeley and Hitch

Question 2

What is WMM

Answer 2

Explanation of how STM organised and how it functions

Question 3

wmm concerned with …

Answer 3

mental space and how its active when we are temporarily storing and manipulating info

e.g understanding another language

Question 4

Name the 4 components of teh WMM

Answer 4

central executive
phonological loop
visuo spatial sketchpad
episodic Buffer

Question 5

Central executive has what type of role

Answer 5

supervisory role

Question 6

what 3 things does CE do

Answer 6

monitor incoming data

focuses and divides our limited attention

allocates subsystems to tasks

Question 7

Describe processing capacity of CE

Answer 7

limited processing capacity

Question 8

How does CE store info

Answer 8

TRICK QUESTION HAHA cause it doesn’t store info

Question 9

What does the phonological loop deal with and therefore what type of coding

Answer 9

auditory info so coding is acoustic

Question 10

What does the phonological loop preserve

Answer 10

the order which infor arrives

Question 11

What is the phonological loop subdivided into

Answer 11

phonological store
articulatory process

Question 12

What does the phonological store store

Answer 12

store the words you hear

Question 13

What does the articulatory process allow

Answer 13

maintainenance rehersal - repeating words in a loop to keep em in wm whilst needed

Question 14

What is the capacity of the articulatory process

Answer 14

two seconds worth of what you can say

Question 15

What do vss do

Answer 15

store visual and/or spatial information when required

Question 16

give an example of when you’d use vss

Answer 16

working how many windows there are on your house as you visualise it

Question 17

Describe the capcity of the vss

Answer 17

limited

Question 18

according to Baddeley the capacity of the VSS is what #wise

Answer 18

3/4 objects

Question 19

robert logie divided the VSS into

Answer 19

visual cache
inner scribe

Question 20

What does the visual cache do

Answer 20

stores visual data

Question 21

What does the inner scribe do

Answer 21

records arrangment of objects in teh visual field

Question 22

When was the Episodic Buffer made

Answer 22

2000

Question 23

What is the EB

Answer 23

Temporary store of information

integrating the visual, spatial and verbal info processed by other stores

and recordng events that are happenin

Question 24

what are the 2 functino of EB

Answer 24

integrating
recording

Question 25

what does the eb integrate

Answer 25

visual. spatial and verbal info processed by other stores

Question 26

The EB can be seen as

Answer 26

storage component of the CE

Question 27

what does the EB record

Answer 27

events (episodes) that are occuring

Question 28

What is the capacity of the EB

Answer 28

limted capacity about 4 chunks

Question 29

What does the episodic buffer link

Answer 29

working memory to LTM and wider cognitive processes e.g perception

Question 30

evals for WMM

Answer 30

STRENGTH clinaical evidence from case study of patient KF

COUNTERPOINT unclear if he had other cognitive impairments

strenght - dual task performance

limitation - nature of the central executive

Question 31

exaplin support form KF study

after x injury KF had poor x ability for x info

but could process x info as per x

e.g immediate recall of digits/letters better when x read them (visual) than when others read them (x)

showing his x x damaged but x intact

therefore KF findingsd strongly x x of seperate x and x memory stores

Answer 31

after brain injury KF had poor STM ability for sound info

but could process visual info as per

e.g immediate recall of digits/letters better wjem je read them (visual) than when others read them (Acoustic)

showinghis phonological loop damaged but VSS intact

therefore KF findingsd strongly suggest existence of seperate visual and acoustic memory stores

Question 32

counterpoint to : support from KF study

Answer 32

unclear whether KF had other cognititve impairments (apart from damage to phonological loop) which may have affected his performance on memory tasks

injury cuased by motorcycle

trauma may have affected his cognitive performance quite apart from any brain injury

this challenges evidene that comes from clinical studies of people with brain injuries that may have affected many diff systems

Question 33

Explain lack of clarity over nature of CE

Baddeley x recognised when he said xx most important but x understood component of WMM

Showing CE needs to be mroe clearly x than just simply being x

e.g some psychologists believe CE may x of seperate x

x/unclear evidence shows the CE is an x component and this challenges the x of the WMM

Answer 33

Baddeley himself recognised when he said CE most important but least understood component of WMM

Showing CE needs to be mroe clearly specified than just simply being attention

e.g some psychologists believe CE may consist of seperate subcomponents

conflicitng/unclear evidence shows the CE is an unsatisfactory component and this challenges the integrity of the WMM

Question 34

strenght dual task studies

studies of x task performance support the seperate existence of x

when baddley et als pt carried out a x and x task at the same time

perfomrnace on eahc was x to when they did tasks x

but when x tasks visual/verbal, performance declined x

this is cause both x tasks compete for teh same x(vss)
but no x when performing a
x and verbal task together

showing ther x be a x subsystem(x) that processes the visual x and one for verbal processing (pl)

Answer 34

studies of dual task performance support the seperate existence of VSS

when baddley et als pt carried out a visual and verbak task at the same time

perfomrnace on eahc was similar to when they carried out tasks seperatley

but when both tasks visual/verbal performance declined substantially

as both visual tasks compete for teh same subsystem(vss)
but no comp when performing a visual and verbal task together

showing ther must be a seperate subsystem(vss) that processes the visual input and one for verbal processing (pl)