Psychology - Plan: Describe & evaluate the WMM (16 marks)

How information is passed between the stores - ? P1 intro: Central executive- its role and capacity - The Central executive is an attentional process that monitors incoming information. It also solves problems, makes decisions and allocates tasks to the two 'slave' systems, which are the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad. It has a limited capacity. P1 intro: episodic buffer- its role and capacity - The episodic buffer is to integrate and store information temporarily from the central executive, the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad and long term memory. Baddeley added the episodic buffer because the model lacked a general store. It has a limited capacity of about 4 chunks of information. P1 intro: phonological loop- its role and capacity - The Phonological loop deals with auditory information. Baddeley subdivided the phonological loop into the phonological store (which holds words you hear) and the articulatory loop (which silently repeats words- as a rehearsal process). The capacity of the loop is about 2 seconds worth of what you can say.