the Working Memory Model

Question 0

What is the central executive

Answer 0

⚫️processes info from all sensory routes
➡️controls slave system
➡️process is attention like
➡️limited capacity

Question 1

Who made the WMM

Answer 1

➡️Baddeley & Hitch
➡️replaced the idea of a unitary STM
➡️suggests a system involving active processing
➡️and short-term storage of information

➡️Baddeley and Lewis
➡️added episodic buffer stock

Question 2

Give a research study if the central executive

Answer 2

⚫️Baddeley
➡️participants could not generate random numbers
➡️whilst switching their attention between letters and numbers

➡️suggesting that two task were competing for central executive resources
➡implies CE has limited capacity
➡️can only handle one info at a time

Question 3

Describe the phonological loop

Answer 3

⚫️part of slave system

⚫️processes on auditory info

⚫️limited capacity determined by
➡️how much info is spoken aloud in around 2 sec

Question 4

Describe the 2 sub parts baddeley divided the PL into

Answer 4

⚫️phonological store
➡️focusses on incoming speech

⚫️articulatory process
➡️focusses on speech production

Question 5

Give a research study to support the phonological loop

Answer 5

⚫️Baddeley et al
➡️found participants recalled more shorter words
➡️than longer words

➡️suggesting
➡️capacity of phonological loop
➡️determined by how long it takes to say words
➡️rather than number of words

Question 6

Describe the visual-spatial sketchpad

Answer 6

⚫️process of
➡️spatial and visual info

⚫️visual cache
➡️stores visual material about form and colour
⚫️inner scribe
➡️stores info about spatial relations

Question 7

Give a research study of visual-spatial sketchpad

Answer 7

⚫Klauer & zhao
➡️suggest more interference between two visual task
➡️than between a visual and a spatial task
➡️suggest existence of separate visual cache and inner scribe

Question 8

Describe the episodic buffer

Answer 8

⚫️limited capacity store of integrated info
➡️from
➡️central executive
➡️phonological loop
➡️visual-spatial sketchpad
➡️LTM

Question 9

Give a positive evaluation of the WMM

Answer 9

⚫️braddeley found
➡️patients with damaged frontal lobe
➡️had problems concentrating
➡️suggesting damage to the central executive

Question 10

Give two negative evaluation of the WMM

Answer 10

⚫️central executive too simple
➡️important part of model
➡️but exact role is unclear

⚫️braddeley added the episodic buffer
➡️making model more complex
➡️suggest model is not complete
➡️may need more further revision
➡️as still more evidence is uncovered