working memory model

• What are the four sections of the working memory model?

  Central executive, episodic buffer, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad
• What is the role of the central executive in the working memory model?

  It directs attention and allocates information
• What does the phonological loop deal with?

  Auditory information
• What is the phonological store also known as?

  Inner ear
• Why can information that sounds similar be problematic in the phonological loop?

  Because it deals with similar auditory information
• What is the articulatory rehearsal system also known as?

  Inner voice
• How does the articulatory rehearsal system function?

  It organizes verbal material as it would be spoken
• What type of material does the visuospatial sketchpad deal with?

  Visual and spatial material
• When would you use the visuospatial sketchpad?

  When planning a route or catching a ball
• What is the episodic buffer's function in the working memory model?

  It serves as a general storage space
• How does the episodic buffer integrate information?

  It integrates information from the central executive
• Who is Henry Millaison in relation to the working memory model?

  He provides evidence for the model
• What type of memory was affected in Henry Millaison?

  Spatial memory
• What does Henry Millaison's case support about working memory?

  It supports the separation of verbal and visuospatial information
• applications, strength, and weaknesses

  Strengths

  • Research has found that dyslexia is associated with impairment to one of the loops specifically the articulatory rehearsal system and non-word repetition test has been developed which is widely used to diagnose dyslexia.
• Evidence, strengths

  Strengths

  • Evidence from lab experiments using the jewel task method demonstrate existence of more than one component of short-term memory
  • Henry Molaison had problems with the spatial stm but not verbal short term it supports the separate spatial phonological loop
• evidence weakness

  Weaknesses

  • ecological validity mundane realism from lab experiments used to measure different components
  • Difficulty generalise to people because this is a case study of an extraordinary individual with brain damage
• Alternative theories

  The role of short-term memory there's newer theories that also should suggest that there is more than one component long-term memory working memory can explain evidence that cannot be explained by the multi store model