Working Memory Model

    Cards (21)

    • Who made the Working Memory Model?

      Baddeley and Hitch (1974)
    • What does the central executive do?

      Monitors incoming data and directs information to the two slave systems (phonological loop or visuo-spatial sketchpad)
    • What is the coding of the central executive?

      Modality free
    • What is the capacity of the central executive?

      Limited
    • What is the phonological loop?

      One of the slave systems that deals with auditory information
    • What is the capacity of the phonological loop?

      2 seconds
    • What is the coding of the phonological loop?

      Acoustically
    • What is the names of the substores of the phonological loop?

      • Articulatory process
      • Phonological store
    • What is the articulatory process?

      The part of the phonological loop that repeats words that they hear
    • What is the phonological store?

      The part of the phonological loop that states the words that you hear or a short period of time
    • What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

      One of the slave systems that deals with visual information
    • What is the capacity of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

      3-4 objects
    • What is the coding of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

      Visually
    • What are the substores of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

      • The Visual Cache
      • Inner Scribe
    • What is the visual cache?

      It is responsible for storing visual information eg colour
    • What is the inner scribe?

      It is responsible for recording the arrangement of objects in the visual field
    • What is the episodic buffer?

      • It binds together visual, spatial and verbal information from the visuo-spatial sketchpad and the phonological loop
      • It links the working model and LTM
    • What is the coding of episodic buffer?

      Modality free
    • What is the capacity of the episodic buffer?

      Limited to 4 chunks
    • What are strengths of the Working Memory Model?

      • Dual-task performance studies
    • What does the Working Memory Model look like?
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