The Working Memory Model

Question 1

What does the central executive do ?
(Baddely 1974 WMM)

Answer 1

Organises the attention process and divides available resources between the three slave systems.

Question 2

What is the visuospatial sketchpad?

Answer 2

Information that has been processed visually

Question 3

What is the visual cache ?
What is the inner scribe ?

Answer 3

Visual cache- memory store for images/ sights we have witnessed

Inner scribe- ability to imagine space and shapes. E.g plan a route

Question 4

What is the episodic buffer ?

Answer 4

Processes info from the other two slave systems and puts it into chronological order before it is added to the LTM.

Question 5

What is the phonological loop ?

Answer 5

Concerned with info that has been processed acoustically

Question 6

What is the phonological store?
What is the Articulatory store ?

Answer 6

Phonological store- Memory store for sounds we have heard

Articulatory process- inner voice used to think and retain info

Question 7

Explain the KF case study ?

Answer 7

KF suffered brain damage from a motorcycle accident. KF’s LTM memory had remain intact. His STM had been damaged. Only verbal info was affected. STM for visual info was unaffected. Meaning he could not recall a list of items shortly after presented to him, but if items were physically presented in room he would be able to recall not only items but their positions in room.