WMM - Baddeley and Hitch - created from Mind Map

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AO1

AO3

Central Executive

Phonological Loop

VSS

Episodic Buffer

Attentional Processes

Monitors/Co-Ordinates with all other cognitive functions within WM

Directs Sensory Information to 'Slave Systems'

Limited Capacity

BxH states the info received her is either immediately allocated to slave system or lost

2 Seconds

Acoustic Coding

Phonological Store

Articulatory Process

Processes Information Heard

Processes words heard or seen.

Maintainence rehearsal occurs, auditory information is looped around

Plan Spatial Tasks E.G. Moving around your environment, driving a car

Visual and Spatial information is stored

3 or 4 Items of capacity

Visual Cache

Inner Scribe

Processes information about visual items

Processes Spatial relationship between item and other items within visual field

Integrates Visual, Spaital and Verbal Information time sequencing them

Added to explain why some amnesiacs didn't fit in with the original model

Strengths

Weaknesses

KF Again

Dual-Task Performance

Greater Difficulty completing 2 Tasks in same slave system than tasks with 2 different slave systems

Lacks ecological validity

Eslinger and Damasio

EVR - Derebral brain tumours removed

EVR struggled to do problem solving using the CE

Could problem solve on paper but not in day-to-day decision making

Explanation of CE is not complex enough - EVR's impairments suggest a subdivision of CE