Working Memory Model

Question 0

Describe the central executive?

Answer 0

It’s the key component and can be described as attention, it has a limited capacity and controls two slave systems that also have limited capacity called the articulatory phonological loop and the Visio spatial sketchpad

Question 1

Who developed the Working Memory Model?

Answer 1

Baddeley and Hitch (1974) developed a multi store model of STM called the Working Memory Model, proposing that STM is made up of several different stores

Question 2

What is the articulatory phonological loop and what does it contain?

Answer 2

It holds speech based information and contains a phonological store (inner ear) and an articulatory process (inner voice)

Question 3

What did Baddeley and Hitch base their model on?

Answer 3

Results from studies that used interference tasks

Question 4

Give a study that supports the working memory model?

Answer 4

Shallice and Warrington(1974) KF was a brain damaged patient who had an impaired STM. His problem was with immediate recall of words presented verbally, but not with visual information. This suggested he had an impaired articulatory loop therefore providing evidence for the working memory models view of STM

Question 5

Give a disadvantage of this model?

Answer 5

Psychologists have criticised this model as they think their idea of a central executive is simplistic and vague. Their model doesn’t really explain exactly what it does