Working Memory Model

Imagine Benjamin, Luna, and Abigail are in a team working on a project. If Benjamin is the central executive, what would be his responsibility?

• Monitoring and coordinating the operation of the team members (Luna and Abigail)

• Storing and processing visual and spatial information for the project

• Dealing with spoken and written material for the project

• Integrating information from long-term memory for the project

Imagine Benjamin, Avery, and Lily are playing a virtual reality game. Which component of their working memory model would be primarily responsible for dealing with the visual and spatial information they encounter in the game?

• Central Executive

• Phonological Loop

• Visuospatial Sketchpad

• Episodic Buffer

Luna, Mia, and Nora are discussing the phonological loop in their psychology class. They're trying to figure out the function of the phonological store. Can you help them out?

• Processes speech perception and stores spoken words we hear for 1-2 seconds

• Processes speech production and rehearses verbal information

• Stores and processes visual and spatial information

• Integrates information across different systems

What is the role of the visuospatial sketchpad in working memory?

• To monitor and coordinate the operation of the slave systems

• To store and process spoken and written material

• To deal with visual and spatial information

• To integrate information from long-term memory

What is the purpose of the episodic buffer in the updated working memory model?

• To store and process visual and spatial information

• To integrate information from long-term memory

• To communicate with the components of working memory

• To monitor and coordinate the operation of the slave systems

Priya, Noah, and Benjamin are having a debate. They are trying to figure out what the working memory model explains. Can you help them?

• Verbal reasoning and comprehension

• Reading and problem-solving

• Visual and spatial processing

• All of the above

What evidence supports the existence of working memory?

• Dual-task studies

• The KF case study

• Experimental evidence

• All of the above

What is a weakness of the working memory model?

• Lack of direct evidence for the central executive

• Limited capacity of the central executive

• Inability to explain changes in processing ability

• Exclusion of sensory memory and long-term memory

What is a strength of the working memory model?

• Supported by experimental evidence

• Explains a range of tasks

• Applies to real-life situations

• All of the above