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who was the working model proposed by? |
baddeley and hitch in 1974 |
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what did the propose that was different to the multi-store model? |
they proposed that the short term wasn't a single store. they said it was made up of 4 different active stores that hold several pieces of information while they are being worked on. |
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what is the central executive |
it is the control centre which acts as a processor dealing with incoming information from senses i.e. visual, auditory. |
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what is the central executives role? |
it is to direct attention to particular tasks. it also is to monitor and coordinate information. |
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what does it do and what does it allocate?
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it makes decisions and allocates slave systems to tasks (other components) |
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what else does the central executive do? |
it decides which information is attended to and which parts of the working memory to send it to. |
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capacity |
has a limited capacity- can't attend to too many things at once and can hardly store data. |
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phonological loop capacity |
it has a limited capacity |
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what info does it deal with |
it deals with auditory information in the acoustic store. it is divided into two stores which deal with spoken and written material. |
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phonological store- |
temporary storage system which hold verbal info in a speech based form. |