WMM
- Created by: emma beaver
- Created on: 23-03-15 09:50
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- Working Memory Model
- Weaknesses
- We dont know what the central executive does or is.
- Most research on WMM is on brain damaged patients so may not be valid.
- It dioesnt explain how STM and LTM are linked.
- Strengths
- Lots of supporting evidence
- Bunge et al FMRI scan shows central executive more active when 2 tasks are done at same time
- Baddely et al provided evidence for visuospatial sketchpad in lught tracling task
- Explains some psychology explinations e.g. word length effect
- Lots of supporting evidence
- Stores of WMM
- Central Executive: Directs attention to particular tasks
- Visuo spatial Sketchpad: Processes visual and spatial information (how things look)
- Phonological Loop: Controls auditory information, subdivided into phonological store (inner ear) and articulatory process (inner voice)
- Episodic Buffer: General store,added later to the model for things that include visuo and acoustic information
- Weaknesses
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