WMM

• Who proposed the WMM?


  Baddeley and Hitch (1974)
• What are the components of the WMM?


  Central executive, Visuo-spatial sketchpad, phonological loop
• What component was added later?

  episodic buffer
• What does the phonological loop do?


  Deals with pitch and amplitude of verbal information
• What’s another name for the phonological store?


  Inner ear
• What’s another name for the articulatory rehearsal system?


  Inner voice
• What does the Visuo-spatial sketchpad do?


  Stores information likes size, shape, colour, orientation
• What does the episodic buffer do?


  Stores information while central executive allocates information
• What’s the role of the central executive?


  Allocate information to the slave systems
• What components are the ‘slave systems’?


  Phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketchpad
• When was the episodic buffer added?


  2001
• What experiment provides evidence to the theory?

  Dual task experiment
• What is a disadvantage of the dual task experiment?


  Lacks ecological validity
• How does H.M case study support WMM


  He had a problem with his spatial STM but intact verbal STM. Separate stores
• Whats a disadvantage for H.M case?


  Cannot generalise to population
• How did this theory help diagnose dyslexia


  Non word repetition test
• What is a strength of the theory?


  rehearsal plays a little part in the theory like everyday memory
• What alternate theory can compare? MSM


  WMM examines only STM and can explain it unlike MSM
• What is a shortcoming of the theory?


  Not much detail about the central executive and it’s most important
• How can this theory be applied?


  Research into dyslexia and associated with a phonological loop impairment
• Which part of the phonological loop impairment is associated with dyslexia?


  articulatory rehearsal system