Working Model of Memory Flashcards
(15 cards)
Who proposed the WMM?
Baddeley and Hitch
What is the Central Executive?
Controls two ‘slave systems’
Non specific modality, can process all information
Pays attention and switches tasks accordingly.
What is the Phonological Loop?
Processes auditory sound and allocates it to the Articulatory Loop and Primary acoustic store accordingly.
What is the Articulatory Loop?
Subvocalises sound as an ‘inner voice’. Processes information such as reading and maintenance rehearsal.
What is the Primary Acoustic Store?
remembers sound information such as music, as an ‘inner ear’.
What is the Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad?
Memories of visual information and allocates to visual and spacial accordingly.
What is visual information?
light, colour, etc.
What is spatial information?
direction, distance, etc.
What is the episodic buffer and when was it added?
Explains how memories get from STM to LTM. More holistic than previously.
Added in 2000.
What is Dual Task abilities?
The theory that we cannot process two types of information from the same store, eg, we cannot read while listening to music as one of the stimuli will be ignored.
What is supporting evidence for the WMM?
KF - motorbike accident and lost his verbal memory but not his visual memories.
What is the conflicting evidence for the WMM?
Parkin - conducted a brain scan and couldn’t find one set lcoation for the CE - suggests not just one store.
What is another theory to the WMM?
More holistic than MSM as since 2000 considers both STM and LTM in detail.
Usefulness of the WMM?
Dementia is explained as a decline of the CE functioning so cannot allocate tasks.
Make sure to only have one stimuli to not create sensory overload
What is the Testability of the WMM?
Brain scans (Parkin) couldn’t prove the CE.
Lab studies, low mundane realism.
