Working Memory Model

• What does the working memory model of Baddeley and Hitch deal primarily with?

  STM questioning the existance of a single STM stor
• What does working memory concentrate on?


  Systems by which information is processed in STM and emphasises the idea of an active processor
• What does the WMM question the existence of?

  a SINGLE STM store
• What does working memory consist of ?

  a central executive which controls two slaves (subsystems)
• what are the 2 slaves/subsystems?

  • Visuo-spatial sketchpad ("inner eye")
  • Phonological loop - which is made of two other components :

  1. The articulatory loop or the "inner voice"
  2. The phonological store or the "inner ear"
• What was added in 2000?

  a third component was added in 2000 - THE EPISODIC BUFFER