A-level Working Memory Model

The working memory model attempts to explain...

• Sensory memory

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

• All types of memory

The Working Memory Model was devised by...

• Atkinson and Shiffrin

• Gathercole and Baddeley

• Baddeley and Hitch

• Peterson and Peterson

The role of this store is to bind and integrate information.

• Central Executive

• Phonological Loop

• Visuo-spatial sketchpad

• Episodic Buffer

The model can explain why we can...

• Do two phonological tasks at the same time

• Do a phonological and a visual task at the same time

• Do a visual and a spatial task at the same time

• Do a visual task and a haptic (touch) task at the same time

Gathercole and Baddeley asked participants to follow a spotlight at the same time as describing the angles of different letters, this task was testing the...

• Central executive

• Visuo-spatial sketchpad

• Phonological loop

• Episodic buffer

Baddeley studied the word length effect, this supports the...

• Central executive

• Phonological loop

• Visuo-spatial sketchpad

• Episodic Buffer

How many slave systems are there?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

The articulatory rehearsal loop is part of...

• The central executive

• The Episodic buffer

• The phonological loop

• The visuo-spatial sketchpad

Which store puts information into a time relevant order?

• The Central Executive

• The phonological loop

• The episodic buffer

• The visuo-spatial sketchpad

The model takes a machine reductionist view as...

• It says that our brain is similar to a computer

• It says that short-term memory is only one store

• It says that memory is processed through a series of systems and processes

• It suggests that memory is both biological and cognitive