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Why working memory?
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Different types of information is being worked on and processed hence working memory.
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Attention can be...
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Divided between 2 different tasks using different components. Hard to allocate information using the same component.
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STM described as an..
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Active store, because it's divided into little stores.
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Phonological loop?
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The component consists of the articulatory control processes and phonological store.
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Phonological store?
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Known as inner ear, and is important for language acquisition. The component receives auditory information and stores it as an acoustic code.
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Episodiac Buffer?
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The component acts as a temporary store for all types of information. This component integrates information from the central executive.
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Articulatory control process?
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Inner voice. Linked to speech production used to rehearse words and store verbal information, from the phonological stores.
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Visuo-spatial sketch pad?
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Component known as the inner eye. It processes movement and actions as well as static visual patterns.
The component uses visual encoding, analyzing information, in terms of its size, shape and colour. |
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Central executive?
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Like the 'big boss' of the WMM and is involved in higher order cognitive processes such as decision making.
This does not store anything itself, as it has limited capacity. Allocates attention to slave systems. |
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Case study of WMM?
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KF- Brain damaged forgot auditory information was much greater than visual information, Brain damaged restricted to the phonological loop- not a single store.
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Lab experiment of WMM?
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Dual task studies- demonstrated evidence of visuo-spatial sketch pad. Gave them a visual tracking task. Following the light. Dual task, using separate task was better. Describing angles of letters. VSS and PL separate.
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Pratical application of WMM?
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Used in real life to diagnose people with schizophrenia, as they have a dysfunctional working memory. Useful model.
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Contradiction?
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Eslinger and Damasio. Studies a man who had cerebral cortex tumour removed from his brain. He had brain damage, and their results showed he performed well on all simple reasoning tests, however on decision making, did not.
Central executive not wholly intact. |
