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The Working Memory
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- 1what is the Working memory a Model of?the Working Memory is a model of the sort term memory only
- 2What did Baddeley and Hitch think about the Multi-store model?Baddeley and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multi-store model was too simplistic, they thought that STM was too passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information
- 3Explain the Central Executive...- considered most important part of Working Memory
- contains attention and coordinates the actions of other components
- briefly store information
- limited capacity
- moderately free, meaning it can store information in any sense form - 4Explain the Articulatory Control System in the Phonological loop...- the inner voice
- rehearses info verbally
- time based capacity of about 2 seconds
- system you use to mentally rehearse info by repeating it over and over again - 5Explain the Phonological Store in the Phonological Loop...- inner ear
- uses a sound based code to store information
- info decays after about 2 seconds, unless rehearsed by the Articulatory Control System
- receives its input either directly form ears or LTM
e.g: if you imagine you favourite piece of music your using your phonological loop - 6Explain the Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad...- store and manipulates visual information
- input is from eyes or LTM
e.g: if you imagine an object and the picture it rotating you're using you Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad - 7Explain the Episodic Buffer...- fairly recent addition to the Model (Baddeley 2000)
- purpose is to bird together all the components with information about time and order; this prepares memories for the storage in episodic LTM - 8Give a strength of the WMMhigh in face validity, because it fits in with everyday experiences of manipulating information when solving problems, with STM as a dynamic process rather than a statistic store
- 9Give a weakness of the WMMin the WM verbal rehearsal is not necessary for all types of information - just verbal strings - this fits better with our everyday experience
E.g: we don't rehearse everything that happens to us because events are processed by the episodic buffer
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- A level Psychology (Cognitive ) Flashcards on The Working Memory , created by Amy Harwood on 04/10/2016.
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- Amy Harwood · Oct 2016
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