WMM

WMM

1. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE

   • Limited capacity
   • Most important
   • Can process any sensory input
   • Allocates resources to the slave systems
     • Resources are the amount of attention given to a task
       • It controls attention

2. THE PHONOLOGICAL LOOP

   • Repeats sounds over & over - 'loop'
   • PHONOLOGICAL STORE
     • Acoustically encoded items (sounds) stored for a brief period
     • 'Inner ear'
   • ARTICULATORY PROCESS
     • Where words that have been repeated are stored
     • 'Inner voice'

3. VISUO-SPATIAL SCRATCHPAD

   • Limited capacity
     • temporary memory system holding visual/spatial info
   • E.G. If you are parking in a carpark, you are visualising the carpark and using your visuo spatial to see if the carpark space will fit the size of your car

4. EPISODIC BUFFER

   • How about info that isn't visual, verbal or spacial? - Alan Baddley then created the episodic buffer for holding temporaray info (e.g. smell/touch)
   • Limited capacity