Working Memory of Model

Question 1

Central Executive

Answer 1

• In the working memory of model, the central executive is an attentional process that monitors incoming data and makes decisions and allocates slave systems to the task. It has a very limited processing capacity.

Question 2

Episodic Buffer

Answer 2

• In the working memory of model, the episodic buffer is the third slave system, which is a temporary store for information, integrating the visual, spatial, and verbal information processed by other stores and maintaining a sense of time sequencing. According to Baddeley, It has a limited capacity of approximately four chunks and links working memory to LTM and wider cognitive processes such as perception

Question 3

Phonological Loop

Answer 3

• In the working memory model, the phonological loop is one of the slave systems which deals with auditory information and preserves the order in which the information arrives. The phonological loop is split into the phonological store which stores the word you hear and the articulatory process which allows maintenance rehearsal

Question 4

Visual-spatial sketchpad

Answer 4

• In the working memory model, the visuo-spatial sketchpad is the second slave system which stores visual or spatial information and has a limited capacity. For example, if you are asked to work out how many widows there are on your house you visualise it. Logie subdivided the VSS into the visual cache, which stores visual data and the inner scribe which records the arrangement of objects in the visual field.