WMM

Question 1

Practical applications…

Answer 1

Model has been argued to be able to help children with ADHD. They would have deficits in memory which the model can provide practical suggestions to help them

Question 2

Support form brain scanning studies, Smith (1995)…

Answer 2

Used brain scans to show how different areas of the brain are active when doing visual or verbal tasks. Provides support for the distinctiveness of the separate visual and verbal stores as they are located in different areas of brain

Question 3

Support from case studies, KF…

Answer 3

Suffered brain damage, could process visual info but struggled with verbal. Supports existence of two separate visual and verbal stores. Seems to be only the PL was to be affected as his VSS was still functional

Question 4

Not all aspects of the model are fully understood. Baddeley…

Answer 4

said “ the central executive is the most important and least understood component”. E.g. been argued it has limited capacity, but this hasn’t been researched properly with any precision. It’s usually defined as being “attention” but likely to have other components that haven’t been researched yet

Question 4

Support from lab experiments, Baddeley(1993)…

Answer 4

Found ppt had difficulty tracking a moving light and describing the angles of a letter, others did but while performing a verbal task. Bc 1st group did two visual tasks whilst 2nd did not. Suggesting there are separate parts of STM that deals with visual and verbal info