Mind map

The working memory model

Annabelle Usher Psychology A level English

Map content

Central executive
- Allocates tasks to slave systems
- No storage
Phonological loop
- Phonological store holds words for the PL
  - Inner ear
- Articulatory process performs maintenance rehearsal for PL
  - inner voice
Visuo-spatial sketch pad
- Visual cache for form and colour
- Inner scribe for spatial relations
Episodic buffer records events as they happen
Evaluation
- Word length effect
  - Longer words can't be rehearsed (supports phonological loop)
    - Articulary suppression task cancels out word length effect (supports articulatory process)
- CE doesn't explain anything and more complex than currently represented
- Hitch and Baddeley
  - participants slower when doing dual tasks
- Brain damaged patients
  - KF damage to PL problems with verbal material (words not sounds
  - LH damage to spatial system
  - SC damage to PL unable to learn word pairs presented out loud

Description: A level Psychology (Memory ) Mind Map on The working memory model, created by Annabelle Usher on 03/06/2022.
Created by: Annabelle Usher · Jun 2022
Updated: Jun 4, 2022
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