AO3 EVALUATION

• Give 4 strengths (brieflty) of the working memory mode;?


  • PHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
  • doesn't over-emphasise the importance of rehearsal for STM retention in contrast to the MSM
  • Seems to make more sense to see STM as a group of processing mechanisms rather than as a single store where info is held
  • it portrays memory as an active process, not merely a series of passive stores
• Give a strength of the working memory model?

  Physiological evidence:

  • brain scans have shown that different areas of the brain are used while undertaking verbal and visual tasks
• give a strength of the working memory model?

  working memory does not over-emphasise the importance of rehearsal for STM retention in contrast to the MSM
• Give a strength of the working memory model?

  seems to make more sense to see STM as a group of processing mechanisms rather than as a single store where information is held
• give a strength of the working memory model?

  it portrays memory as an active process, not merely a series of passive stores
• give a weakness of the working memory model?

  capacity of the central executive has never been measured
• give a weakness of the working memory model?


  the working model does not explain changes in processing ability that occur as a result of practice or time
• give a weakness of the working memory model?

  It only considers STM and recently-activated LTM.

  Therefore, it doesn't show the relationship between STM and LTM clearly and cannot be a comprehensive model of memory.