WMM Exam Plan

Describe and evaluate the working memory model (16 marks)

AO1 

• Developed by Badderley and Hitch in 1974 and is the best, most complex model of memory process to date
• Central executive co-ordinates all activites of three other subsystems 
• Phonological loop processes information in terms of sound, including both written and spoken material. Made up of further systems called articulatory control system and phonological store 
• Articulatroy control system allows maintenance rehersal of info you recieve 
• Phonological store stores the words you hear and is also known as the inner ear
• Episodic buffer brings material together into a single memory instead of separate strands and provides bridge between ST and LTM 
• Visuo-spatial sketchpad process visual and spatial information in…