The working memory model

Question 1

The working memory model

Answer 1

Focuses on short-term memory
2 separate components - visual + verbal
function independently
visuospatial sketchpad + phonological loop

Question 2

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 2

visual + spatial tasks
Visual cache/store (holds info based on colour + form)
visual notepad/ inner scribe (spatial + movement information)

Question 3

Phonological loop

Answer 3

Sounds
especially repetition - “loop”
Split into: Phonological store (sounds stored briefly) + articulatory process (repeated words)

Question 4

Central executive

Answer 4

Not a store - part of paying ATTENTION
pay attention , CE sends to either store
Allocating slave-systems to tasks

Question 5

Episodic Buffer

Answer 5

General store
Buffer = temporary store for holding information
seen as “storage component” of CE
integrates visual-spatial and sound into episodes
records info in episodes, so it is time-sequenced
stores any information not visual or sound
capacity - 4 chunks

Question 6

AO3

Answer 6

KF
brain damage -STM severely impaired
ST of forgetting auditory> ST of forgetting visual
separate components

Dual-task performance
difficulty doing two tasks (visual) than verbal + visual
compete for same component

case study
lack population validity

Dual-tasks relies highly on controlled lab conditions
lack of ecological valdity