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The Working Memory Model Flashcards

1
Q

Who created the working memory model (WMM)?

A

Baddeley and Hitch

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What is the WMM?

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An explanation of memory that includes multiple STM stores

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What caused the WMM to be created?

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Dual task performance that disproved the MSM

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4
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How many slave systems are there in the WMM?

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4

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What are the 4 WMM slave systems?

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The central executive, the phonological loop, the visuo-spatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer

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What does the central executive do?

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Monitors and coordinates all other mental functions in working memory

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7
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Where does information come from when it goes to the CE?

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The LTM or the senses

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8
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What is the capacity of the CE?

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Very limited

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What is the phonological loop?

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A slave system that codes speech sounds in the working memory

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10
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What can the phonological loop be subdivided into?

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Articulatory process and phonological store

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What is the articulatory process?

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The inner voice

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12
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What is the phonological store?

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The inner ear

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What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

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A slave system that codes visual information in terms of the individual objects, as well as their arrangement

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What can the visuo-spatial sketchpad be subdivided into?

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Visual cache and inner scribe

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What is the visual cache?

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Stores information about visual items

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16
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What is the inner scribe?

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Stores the arrangement of objects in the visual field

17
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What is the episodic buffer?

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A slave system that receives input from many sources, temporarily stores the information and then integrates it to create a memory

18
Q

What are the 4 AO3 points of the WMM?

A

1) Case study support (KF)
2) Research support (Dual task studies)
3) CE too vague
4) Evidence for the phonological loop and articulatory process

19
Q

What type of accident was KF involved in?

A

A motorcycle accident

20
Q

What tasks was KF able to do?

A

Short term visual tasks

21
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What tasks was KF unable to do?

A

Short term verbal tasks

22
Q

What does KF provide support for?

A

Separate STM stores as proposed by WMM

23
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Why are the findings about KF ungeneralisable?

A

Because his condition was highly unique

24
Q

What cause and effect relationship is unable to be established from KF?

A

Cause = damaged phonological loop
Effect = poor performance on short term verbal tasks

25
Q

What acts as a confounding variable in KF’s case?

A

Potential damage to other brain regions

26
Q

Why was the MSM unable to explain dual task performance?

A

Because individuals are able to engage in two different short term tasks at once (NOT UNITARY)

27
Q

What was the visual task in Baddeley’s dual task study?

A

Tracking light

28
Q

What was the verbal task in Baddeley’s dual task study?

A

Describing angles

29
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What is the issue with dual task studies?

A

Lab studies that use artificial tasks - LACK MUNDANE REALISM + ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY

30
Q

What does the central executive appear to be the same as?

A

Attention

31
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Why does the central executive lack scientific rigour?

A

It is unfalsifiable

32
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Why have psychologists suggested that the central executive is wrong?

A

They believe it isn’t one single component

33
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What effect is the WMM able to explain?

A

Word length effect

34
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Why are we more likely to forget longer words than shorter words?

A

They don’t fit in our phonological loop

35
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What happens to the word length effect when completing an articulatory suppression task?

A

It disappears

36
Q

What is the duration of the phonological loop?

A

It holds the amount of information you can say in 2 seconds

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