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Working Memory Model AO1
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- 1What is the central executive?The control centre which acts as a processor, dealing with incoming information
- 2True or False- the central executive only processes auditory informationFalse- the central executive takes in information from all senses
- 3What is the CE's role?- To direct attention to particular tasks.
- Maintaining and Controlling information
- Makes decisions and allocates the slave systems to other tasks - 4What type of capacity does the CE have?Limited
- 5What is the phonological loop?An acoustic system that deals with auditory information
- 6What are the two systems that the phonological loop is divided into?The articulatory control process and the phonological store
- 7What is the ACP associated with?Speech production
- 8How does the ACP rehearse information?Through silent repetition
- 9What does the ACP convert written material into?Articulatory code
- 10What is the Phonological store?a temporary storage system that holds verbal information in a speech based form
- 11What is the capacity of the phonological store?about 1-2 seconds worth of what you can say
- 12What is the visuo-spatial scratchpad?A temporary storage system used for the manipulation, planning and understanding of visual information and spatial information
- 13What is the capacity of the visuo-spatial scratchpad?3-4 objects
- 14What can the VSS be divided into?The visual cache and the inner scribe
- 15What is the visual cache?Stores visual data and what things look like
- 16What is the inner scribe?Deals with the relationship between objects
- 17What is the episodic buffer?A temporary storage system used to integrate information from all three systems. Uses time sequencing and has a capacity of about 4 chunks
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