The Working Memory Model
- Created by: Rosieebea
- Created on: 26-02-18 16:25
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- The Working Memory Model
- Central Executive
- Controls the other "slave" systems
- Sorts through sensory information received and sends the information to the right slave system
- Small capacity
- Short duration
- Controls the other "slave" systems
- Phonological Loop
- Articulatory Loop
- Used for verbal rehearsal - repeats sounds in order
- The Phonological Store
- Acoustic information - what you hear
- 2 seconds capacity
- Acoustic information - what you hear
- Articulatory Loop
- Visuo-Spatial Scratchpad
- Used for visual information and spatial awareness
- Visual Cache
- Anything seen
- Inner scribe
- Arrangement of objects in space
- Visual Cache
- Used for visual information and spatial awareness
- Episodic Buffer
- Used for retrieval of information from the LTM
- Temporarily stores information for the CE
- Converts information to "episodes" so time is relevant
- Isn't on the original design but was added in 2000
- Has a capacity of 4 chunks of information
- Song
- Created by Baddeley and Hitch in 1977
- Created after the Multistore memory model
- B&H argued that STM was more complex than it was made out to be
- Extra notes
- A model of STM
- Central Executive
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