Working Memory Model Flashcards
(16 cards)
Who developed the WMM?
Baddeley and Hitch.
What components makes up the WMM?
- Central executive.
- Phonological loop.
- Visuo-spatial sketchpad.
- Episodic buffer.
What components are known as the slave systems?
- Phonological loop.
- Visuo-spatial sketchpad.
- Episodic buffer.
What is the capacity of the components?
Limited.
What is the role of the central executive?
To focus attention on the most important task in the moment.
How does the central executive coordinate the slave systems?
By allocating them to different tasks.
What is the phonological loop responsible for?
Coordinating auditory information.
What does the phonological loop preserve?
The order in which acoustic information is processed.
What are the two divisions of the phonological loop?
- The phonological store.
- The articulatory process.
What does the phonological store store?
Spoken words in the inner ear.
What does the articulatory process store?
Written words in the inner voice.
What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad responsible for?
Storing visual and spatial information.
What can the visuo-spatial sketchpad be further divided into?
- Visual cache.
- Inner scribe.
What does the visual cache store?
Visual data.
What does the inner scribe store?
The arrangement of objects within the visual field of view.
What is the function of the episodic buffer?
To recieve information from the other components and intergrate this into ‘episodes’.
