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strength studies

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Shallice and Warrington (1974)

Gathercole and Baddeley (1993)

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Shallice and Warrington date

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1974

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Gathercole and Baddeley date

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1993

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Shallice and Warrington found support for the working memory model though…

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their case study of KF

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Shallice and Warrington: KF was…

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a brain damaged patient who had an impaired short term memory

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Shallice and Warrington: what was KF’s problem?

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immediate recall of words presented verbally but not with visual information

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Shallice and Warrington: what was suggested about KF?

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impaired articulatory loop but an intact visuo-spatial sketchpad

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Shallice and Warrington: how does KF’s problem support the working memory model?

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the findings could not have been explained by the multi store model, which proposed that short term memory was just one system

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Gathercole and Baddeley: participants were split into…

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two groups

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Gathercole and Baddeley: all the participants…

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had to carry out a task where they had to follow a moving spot light

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Gathercole and Baddeley: following a moving spot light would use

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the visuo-spatial sketchp

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Gathercole and Baddeley: at the same time…

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one group of participants also had to describe the angles on a letter

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Gathercole and Baddeley: describing the angles on a letter uses

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the visuo-spatial sketchp

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Gathercole and Baddeley: the second group were given a second task…

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that would use the phonological loop

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Gathercole and Baddeley: the second group had to…

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do a verbal task whilst following the light

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Gathercole and Baddeley: found that…

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performance was much better in the participants doing tasks which used seperate systems