Working memory model
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- Created on: 21-04-19 17:31
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- The working memory model (1974)
- Central executive
- Processes all information and controls slave systems
- Limited in capacity, can only cope with one piece of info at a time
- Baddeley (1996) PPs found it difficult to switch between numbers and letters on a keyboard
- Supports idea of limited capacity and can only cope with one piece of info
- Little is known about the CE and it is difficult to test
- Phonological loop
- Separated into primary acoustic store and articulatory process
- PAS stores recently-heard words; AP helps with speech production
- Trojani and Grossi (1995) Case study of SC; brain damage affected functioning of PL but not VSS
- Suggests PL is a separate system
- PET scans show separation of slave systems
- Scientific research
- Visuo-spatial sketchpad
- Temporary store for visual and spatial info
- Navigation of physical environment
- Klauer and Zhao (2004) More interference with two visual tasks than a visual and spatial
- Implies separate systems
- PET scans show separation of slave systems
- Supported by dual task studies
- Temporary store for visual and spatial info
- Episodic buffer (2000)
- General store of information
- Alkhalifa (2009) Patient with impaired LTM has superior STM
- Suggests existence of EB
- KF case study; impaired verbal store but visual store was fine
- Central executive
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