Working memory model

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    • Who proposed the WMM
      Baddeley & Hitch
    • What was the experimental evidence for WMM
      Dual task technique (Baddeley & Hitch):

      Vidual task + vidual task = poor performance
      Auditory task + auditory task = poor performance
      Visual task + auditory task = unimpaired performance
    • Research in support of WMM
      Experimental evidence (duel task)
      Clinical evidence (Patient KF)
      Psychological evidence (brain scans)
    • Research that goes against WMM
      Fails to account for musical memory - Berz (1995) demonstrated that participants could listen to instrumental music without impairing performance on other acoustic tasks
      Central executive is oversimplified - Patient EVR performed well on tests requiring skills using rationality (using the CE) however had extremely poor decision making skills such as spending hours on where to eat (using the CE)
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