Outline And Evaluate The Working Memory Model

The working memory model is the part of the short marge memory which is governed by the central executive which monitors and coordinates the operation of the store systems phonological loop and visuo spacial sketchpad. The phonological loop allows sounds to be stored for brief periods. The visuo spatial sketchpad allows visual and spatial information to be stored for brief periods. The two break ones back systems in spite of appearance the WMM are completely separate and can work individually.A plunk of evidence which shows support for the buckle down systems being two separate systems within the WMM is the case of KF. He had a motorcycle accident and damaged his fountainhead and memory, which then left him with no new memory, h couldnt come back anything since the accident. When KF memory was assessed psychologists effectuate out that he could echo things from sight use his visuo spatial sketch pad however he couldnt remember things from ear employ his phonological loo p, this suggests that the slave systems must be separate.This look into has weak reliability that the slave systems are separate this is because these findings were only found on one person and not a collective of people, therefore you cant generalise findings from one person on everybody else, so this evidence on supplys weak support for the WMM. A piece of research which shows support for the slave systems working independently to for each one other is psychologists carried out an experiment on two groups asking them to do specific tasks. Group one was asked to perform two visual tasks using only there visuo spatial sketch pad.The other group was asked to do a visual and verbal task using twain slave systems. The psychologists found out that group 2 performed better this is because they dont overload ne slave systems like the other group this suggests that both slave systems work independently and can become over capacitated. A criticism of this research method is that it was a lab experiment, and is low in ecological validity, which could have affected the results, as participants may feel below pressure with the lab setting.