Working Memory Model (WMM)

The Working Memory Model

Baddeley and Hitch (1974)

• Explains why you can do two different tasks at the same time but not two similar tasks (evidence from Baddeley and Hitch)
• Cental Executive - resource allocation, small capacity
• Phonological loop - phonological store and articulary process, maintainence rehearsal
• Visuo-spatial sketchpad - visual cache and inner scribe
• Episodic buffer - general store and integrates information from other stores and also from LTM

Strengths

• fMRI shows central executive…