The Working Memory Model - AO1 + AO2
- Created by: AdaamDavies
- Created on: 10-05-14 14:36
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- The Working Memory Model
- Central Executive
- Directs each task to it's appropriate store
- Also deals with problem solving and arithmetics
- The Phonological Loop
- Phonological Store (Inner Ear)
- Linked to speech perception
- Articulactory Process (Inner Voice)
- Linked to speech production, used to rehearse and store verbal information
- Phonological Store (Inner Ear)
- The Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
- Inner Scribe
- Deals with spatial and movement, transfers information to the central executive
- Visual Cache
- Stores information about order and colour
- Inner Scribe
- Episodic Buffer
- Temporary information store that is combined with the LTM
- Strengths
- The addition of the episodic buffer makes it more accurate as it explains why you can do two tasks at once
- Applies to real life tasks e.g. Reading (PL) and navigation (VSS)
- KF - Brain damage, STM affected, impairment of verbal information but not visual
- Weaknesses
- The CE is too vague and does not explain a lot
- Information which formed the WMM was taken from patients with brain damage, and their former condition was unknown
- This means that casual effects cannot be concluded
- Based on case studies, cannot generalise to entire population
- Central Executive
- Applies to real life tasks e.g. Reading (PL) and navigation (VSS)
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