WMM

Cards (9)

  • What is the phonological loop made up of?
    Phonological store- holds info for words you hear like an inner ear
    Articulatory process- holds info for words you hear or see, these words are silently looped or repeated like an inner voice. Form of maintenance rehearsal
  • Who developed the WMM? What does it look like?
    • Baddeley and Hitch
    • Felt STM was not just one store but made up of different stores
    • WMM contains different stores within STM
  • What is the visual spatial sketchpad made up of?
    • Visual cache- stores info about visual items
    • Inner scribe- stores the arrangement of objects in the visual field
  • two positives of WMM?
    • 😊dual task performance- explains STM is made up of more complex compartments. 2 tasks performed using the same store are performed less well than 2 tasks performed using different stores
    • 😊evidence from case studies- SC couldn’t learn word pairs presented out loud despite good learning abilities- damage to phon store
  • Two disadvantages of WMM?
    • ☹️problems with case studies- unethical, trauma, can’t generalise them as they are studies of unique individuals. Failure to create general laws about memory
    • ☹️concept of CE too vague- only appears to allocate resources and can be the same as attention, probably several other components, EVR had cerebral tumour removed, after which he could reason well but had poor decision making skills, showing CE was intact but not wholly intact- unsatisfactory because Baddeley and Hitch's account may be more complex than suggested
  • What is WMM?
    Describes how STM is made up of multiple different stores and delivers information to LTM
  • Describe the concept of dual task performance
    • If you perform two things at once (dual task performance) and they are both visual tasks, or tasks to do with sound, you perform less well on them than if you do them separately
    • If you do two things at the same time and one of them is visual whereas the other one involves sound, there’s no interference, you do as well simultaneously as you would doing them separately
  • Describe the central executive
    • Directs attention to particular tasks
    • Very limited capacity
  • describe the episodic buffer
    • extra, general store which can relate to visual and acoustic information, more general memories
    • integrates info from the PL, VSS and episodic buffer
    • sends information to LTM