phonological loop

• auditory and verbal information
• can also store verbal information presented visually, saying in head or out loud
• subvocal rehearsal


  repeating in head
• remembers order of information as it comes to the store
• primary acoustic store


  stores all sound around us for 1-2 seconds, long enough for us to process and decide if they're useful
• every 1 to 2 seconds primary store refreshes and discards all sounds stored in it
• articulatory process


  stores all sounds that we do want to hold onto for longer and that is useful and stores until it is no longer needed
• capacity of the articulatory process is determined by how many words we can say in 2 seconds
• word length affect


  the longer the words in a list the fewer we can retain in the articulatory process
• capacity of the articulatory process is determined by the amount of time it takes to say each word
• the way the articulatory process stores verbal and auditory information is through rehearsal