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8 Cards in this Set
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Central Executive
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controls working meomory and directs the attention, also allocates the resources of the slave stores
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Phonological Loop
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deals with sound information
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Visual-Spatial Sketchpad
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deals with what objects look like and the spatial relationship between them
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Episodic Buffer
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stores any additional information.. (?)
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Dual Task
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Ps. given two tasks: Task 1 involved judging whether sentence is true or false. Task 2 involved saying the word "the" repeatedly. if they had to do both tasks at same time it was slower. --- trying to use phonological loop twice
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Word Length Effect
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if Ps. have to learn a list of words whilst saying the word "the" repeatedly they can't remember the amount of information they can say in 2 seconds. --- phonological loop used for both so visual-spatial sketchpad now needed. english words are shorter for digits so thats why the welsh cant recall lists of digits aswell as the english
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Visual Tracking
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Ps. have to trakc light with pointer, at same time they had to either a) describe angles of letter F or b) complete word task. doing a) was harder --- try to use visual-spatial sketchpad twice
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SC Brain Damage Case Study
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good learning abilities with exception of being unable to learn word pairs when presented out loud, if they was written down he had no difficulty --- phonological loop damaged so visual-spatial sketchpad used
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