Working Memory Model - Quiz

1. Working Memory Model - Quiz • Prep Work Check: Please have your completed WMM diagrams available for checking. • Starter: Complete the WMM Quiz while we wait for the second bell. How many will you score out of 7…

2. What component is missing from this diagram? Episodic Buffer What do each of these components do?

3. Central Executive The boss of the WMM; It controls attention and directs information to the slave systems. It has a limited capacity.

4. Phonological Loop • Articulatory Control Process • (Inner Voice) • Allows sub vocal repetition of items in the phonological store . • Phonological Store (Inner Ear) • Stores acoustic items (speech based sounds) for short periods of time. • It has a limited capacity.

5. Visuo-Spatial Scratch Pad The ‘Inner Eye’ of the WMM; Stores visual and spatial information; Manipulatesmental images; It has a limited capacity.

6. Episodic Buffer Episodic Buffer • It integrates (binds together) information from the LTM and other components.

7. Evaluation of the Working Memory Model • Strengths: • Dual Task Studies • Patient KF • Weakness: • The Central Executive • Only STM?

8. Dual Task Studies Dual-task studies – This is where participants have to perform 2 different tasks at the same time.

9. Robinson et al. (2014) You will now complete two short tasks. The tasks need to be completed in silence. You will have one minute to work on both tasks at the same time… Informed Consent: Raise your hands if I have your consent. Right to Withdraw: You do have the right to withdraw.

10. Task 1 You have one minute. Try to memorise the following number: 6839520148, while drawing a picture of a monkey having a shower…(incase you don’t know what that looks like…)

11. Task 1 - Recall 6839520148 Now recall the 10 digits, in the correct order…

12. Task 2 You have one minute. Try to memorise the following number: 7624851307, while writing the alphabet backwards…Z, Y, X…etc

13. Task 2 - Recall 7624851307 Now recall the 10 digits, in the correct order…

14. The Results… Question: What do these results tell us about memory and the WMM?

15. Dual task studies This is where participants perform two tasks at the same time; If both tasks used the same component (phonological loop) then performance will be poor, where if both tasks uses a different component (phonological loop & visuo-spatial sketchpad) then performance will be improved. Question (Write the answers in your blue books): Explain how dual task studies can be used to support the WMM?

16. Patient KF…Again • Patient KF suffered brain injuries following a motorcycle accident. • He could recall stored info so his LTM was intact; • But his STM was affected, he had problems remembering sounds but he was able to remember images and faces. Question (Write the answers in your blue books): According to the WMM which store was damaged and which store was intact? How does KF support the WWM?

17. Weaknesses of the WMM Falsify: Being able to show that a theory is wrong (false). Although the Central Executive is the most important component, the least is known about it. The capacity of the Central Executive has never been measured. Furthermore, it isn’t clear how it works or what is does and this vagueness means it can be used to explain any experimental results. Difficult to falsify the model as you can use the Central Executive to explain any result.

18. Strengths or Weaknesses • Task: Divide the following information into strengthsand weaknesses… • Either colour the boxes (i.e. green for strengths, red for weaknesses) or cut and stick the boxes in your exercise books, under the headings of strengths and weaknesses.

20. Homework Complete an essay outline, using the sheet provided for the question: ‘Outline and evaluate the working memory model’ (12 marks). You will NOT be required to write this essay…yet, however it is important you understand the structure and function of the WMM as well as 4 evaluation points, 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses.

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