Working memory model

Question 1

Who devised the WMM?

Answer 1

Baddeley + Hitch

Question 2

What are the 4 slave systems of WMM?

Answer 2

Central executive
Phonological loop
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer

Question 3

What is the role of the central executive?

Answer 3

Determines how resources are allocated
Reasoning/decision making
In control

Question 4

What is the role of the phonological loop?

Answer 4

Deals with auditory information

Question 5

What are the 2 parts of the phonological loop?

Answer 5

Phonological store
Articulatory system (maintenance rehearsal)

Question 6

What is the role of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 6

Stores visual information

Question 7

What are the 2 parts of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 7

Visuo-cache

Inner-scribe

Question 8

What is the role of the episodic buffer?

Answer 8

General, extra storage system

Integrates information from all the other slave systems

Question 9

What are the 3 types of LTM?

Answer 9

Episodic
Procedural
Semantic

Question 10

What is episodic memory?

Answer 10

Personal memories of events

Question 11

What is semantic memory?

Answer 11

Facts

Question 12

What is procedural memory?

Answer 12

Implicit

Question 13

What are 2 strengths of WMM

Answer 13

RS - Dual task performance –> Baddeley

Brain scan evidence for different types of LTM

Question 14

What are 4 weaknesses of WMM

Answer 14

OP.A - MSM more emphasis on rehearsal
RL - brain-damaged patients are rare
TL - EB and CE not fully explained, vague
Difficult to distinguish between episodic and semantic LTM

Question 15

Outline dual task performance

Answer 15

Asked to perform 2 tasks at the same time: repeat a list of numbers and answer true/false questions

Question 16

What were the findings of dual task performance?

Answer 16

Study showed that CE was used in true/false and phonological loop in digit task.
Suggests it is easier to do two tasks at the same time if they use different processing systems than if they use the same slave system.