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  • memory store can do more than two things at once
  • it is an explaination of how short-term memory is organised and how it works
  • it is concerned with the part of the mind that is active when we are temporarily storing and manipulating information from the environment
  • there are four main components: central executive, phonological loop, episodic buffer, visuo-spatical sketchpad
  • the central executive is a attentional process that moniters incoming data
  • the central executive is the boss of the working memory
  • the central executive has a very limited processing capacity
  • the phonological loop is one of the slave systems
  • phonological loop processes auditory information
  • phonological loops have two sub-divisions : phonological store, the articulatory process
  • the phonological store stores the words that you hear
  • the articulatory process allows for maintenance rehersal
  • the visuo-spatial sketchpad is another slave system
  • the visuo-spatial sketchpad stores visual and spacial information
  • the visuo-spacial sketchpad can hold 3-4 objects
  • the visuo-spatial sketchpad is sub-divided into : visual cache, the inner scribe
  • the visual cache stores visual data
  • the inner scribe records the arrangement of objects in the visual field
  • the episodic buffer is the third slave system
  • episodic buffer was added to model in 2000
  • the episodic buffer is seen as the storage component of the central executive
  • episodic buffer is a temporary store of information
  • episodic buffer can hold up to 4 items at once
  • episodic buffer holds together different types of info from other slave systems