Working-Memory Model AO3

• How might the CE be seen as vague?


  The role of the CE has not been adequately explained within the WMM.
• Why is it disadvantageous that the CE is not properly understood?


  Might become difficult for psychologists to research the CE and apply knowledge appropriately
• What is the result of psychologists not being able to research the CE appropriately?

  Unable to draw firm conclusions which causes difficulties in substantiating the model and exact nature of the CE - lacking explanatory power
• How does Patient KF support the role of multiple stores within the STM?


  Suffered brain damage, causing him to recall words better visually than acoustically
• Why is Patient KF’s case study advantageous to the WMM?

  Supports the core claim that the STM is not just one store through real-life context; granting the model with greater reliability and thus increasing its plausibility - seen as a more compelling model of memory than the MSM
• What evidence disputes the claim that the STM has a limited capacity of only carrying out one task at a time?

  Bertz (1995) found that individuals have the ability to listen to music without impairing performance on other acoustic tasks
• How is Bertz (1995)’s evidence disadvantageous to the WMM?


  Questions the predictive validity as you would expect an adequate model to predict and substantiate its claim; limits our understanding of memory and thus limits the theoretical value of the WMM
• Why is the WMM a more plausible model of memory than the MSM?

  The WMM is able to explain temporary storage and active processing through the phonological store and articulatory process
• Why is it advantageous that the WMM is a more adequate model of memory than the MSM?

  Allows for a deeper understanding of memory; allowing psychologists to conduct meaningful research and provide a better representation of memory is humans
• Outline and evaluate the WMM (16 marks)

  AO1: Intro and CE

  AO3 (-): CE too vague

  AO1: Slave systems

  AO3 (+): Patient KF

  AO3 (-): Bertz (1995)

  AO3 (+): WMM better than MSM