Working Memory Model

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How many main parts of the wmm are there?

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4 or 5. it can be argued either way

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What are the main parts of the wmm?

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central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad and episodic buffer

Front 3

what are the two parts to the phonological loop?

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phonological store and articulartory loop

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what are the two parts of the visuo-spatial sketch pad?

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inner scribe and visual cache

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when was the episodic buffer added?

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2000

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what is the purpose of the episodic buffer?

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to bind together all the information from the other components

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what is the central executive?

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it controls attention and coordinates the actions of the other components

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What is the most important part of the wmm?

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central executive

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ture of false, the central executive has unlimited capacity?

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false

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The articulatory control system is the inner....?

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the inner voice

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the phonological store is the inner....?

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the inner ear

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What is the phonological store?

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It hold information for about 1.5-2 seconds. Written words must be converted to spoken words

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what is the articulatory control system?

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it rehearses information verdally and has a capacity of about 2 seconds.

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What is the visuo-spatical sketch pad?

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it deals with what the information looks like and how it is laid out.

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what is the visual cache?

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passive visual store

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what is the inner scribe?

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deals with spatial relations between objects

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what is the working memory model?

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a multi-component short-term memory system

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what did Braddely and Hitch (1974) think of the msm?

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thought it was too simplistic. they thought stm was several stores and not just one. so they came up with the wmm

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how do you transfer information from stm to ltm?

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elaborative rehearsal

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what did hitch and braddly do + year?

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1974.
found that participants performed more slowly when doing 2 tasks that occupied the central execvtive than doing 2 tasks where only one involved the central executive.

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what does hitch and braddly's research show?

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that doing 2 tasks that involve the same component cause difficulty as predicted by the wmm.
task 1 = central executive in phonological loop (eg true/false)
task 2 = articulatory processess (repeating "the the the" - that was easy) of central exective (repeating numbers - that was hard)

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what did braddeley et al do + year?

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1975.
found participants find it easier to remember short words than longer words but this disappears if participants are given an articulatory suppression task

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what does braddeley et al research show?

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demontrates that existence of the articulatory process because the supperssion task means you cant rehearse the shorter words anyymore quickyl than the longer ones.

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What did shallice and warrington do + year?

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1970.
studied KF and found that in the stm, hes better remembering with viual (visuo-spatial sketch pad) than acoustic recall (phonological loop)

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what does shallice and warrington research show?

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shows there are more than one component to the stm

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3 weaknesses of the model!

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wm only concerns itself with the stm.
the capacity of the central execvtive has never been measured.
it isn't clear how the central executive works or what is does

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3 strenghts of the moel!

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rehearsal is just 1 option within the articulatory loop instead of being the only means of tranferring information to the long-term dtore.
most psychologists preffer to ues the wmm.
it is a much more plausible model than the msm because it explains stm in term of both temporary storages and active processing.

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evidence for the central executive!

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bunge et al (2000)
they did a fmri (brain scan). for single and dual tasks where showed as the exact same area in the brain scan. but more activity for the dual task

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evidence for the phonological loop and articulatory process!

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braddely et al (1975a)
word length effect - recall was better for short words than long ways (can rehearse more than onger ways). however, when given a articulatory suppression task ("the the the") the difference dissapeared.

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evidence for the visuo-spatial sketchpad!

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braddeley et al (1975b)
light track task (trace a light), while at the same time as doing a visuo- spatial task (describing angles of the letter "F") or an articulatory task ("the the the"). doing the light track and articulatory task was the easiest.

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evidence for the episodic buffer!

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braddely et at (1987)
used unrelated and related words words. remembered more related words because ltm made sense of the information, which improved the recall.