Describing Working Memory Model

Working Memory Model is a model which helps to explain the complexities of...

• long term memory

• short term memory

• autobiographical memory

• implicit memory

Working Memory Model was devised by...

• Baddeley and Hitch

• Atkinson and Shiffrin

• Tulving

• Loftus and Palmer

Baddeley and Hitch describe short term memory as a mental

• work space

• diary or calendar

• calculator

• dustbin

According to Baddeley and Hitch, short term memory is...

• an active processor

• a passive storage space

The working memory model is made up of how many main components?

• three

• four

• five

• six

This component is in charge of the others which are called slave systems.

• Central executive

• Episodic buffer

• Phonological loop

• Visuo-spatial sketchpad

The central executive stores information for further processing.

• true

• false

The central executive helps to...

• allocates processing resources to complete a task

• retains information until it can be passed to the most appropriate slave system

• retrieves information from long term memory to make sense of new incoming information

The phonological loop deal with what sort of information?

• iconic

• auditory

• semantic

• procedural

The phonological loop stores information

• in its original sequential order

• in an associative network

• in an iconic code

• as muscle memories