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Who studied the working memory model

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Baddeley & Hitch

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What is the WMM

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An explanation of how STM is organised and how it functions

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What is the WMM concerned with

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E.g. The part of the mind that is active when working on an arithmetic problem or playing comprehending language

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Outline the order of WMM

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Central executive
Visuospatial sketchpad Episodic buffer Phonological loop
Articulatory loop Phonological store
Long term memory

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What is the role of the central executive

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Essentially an attentions process which monitors incoming data and allocates slave systems to tasks - has a very limited storage capacity

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What does the Phonological loop consist of

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  • Phonological store

- Articulatory loop

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What is the role of the Phonological loop

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Deals with auditory information and preserves the order in which the information arrives

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What is the role of the Phonological store

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Stores words you hear

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What is the role of the articulatory loop

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Allows maintenance rehearsal - repeating sounds to keep them in the WM while they’re needed

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What is the role of the visuo-spatial sketchpad

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Stores visual and/or spatial information when required (e.g. Recalling how many windows your house has)

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What is the VSS subdivided into

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  • Visual Cache

- Inner Scribe

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What is the role of visual cache

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Stores visual data

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What is the role of the inner scribe

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Records arrangement of objects in visual fields

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What is the role of the episodic buffer

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  • It’s a temporary store for information
  • Integrates visual, spatial and verbal information from other stores
  • Maintains sense of time sequencing, recording events that are happening
  • Links to LTM