Alan Baddeley's Model Of Working Memory
Summary of Introduction
The class article that we have read today discusses the Picture span test: Measuring visual working memory capacity involved in remembering and comprehension. This articles primary focus is going to be looking at the concept of working memory and how it actually works and is able to function alongside all other kinds of memory. The beginning of this article starts off by trying to determine the relationship between working memory and cognitive abilities. According to Alan Baddeley these two functions are attached to specific domains within the mind. Baddeley developed a model of working memory, which helps tell us the parallel transfer of information within the phonological loop.
Baddeley’s model of working memory had multiple parts to it, the first of which is a domain-general excusive part and two domain-specific storage parts; these parts all called the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketch pad, and the central executive. The phonological loop is what holds the sequences of acoustic or speech related items. Next the visuo-spatial sketchpad is what contains the visually and or spatially items that encoded. Finally the central executive is an attentionally–limited function that …show more content…
The participants were shown a set of recognizable objects with a particular colored background; none of the target objects were the same color as the background to help avoid blending in. Now the participants were told to count from 1 to 9 to help with the articulatory suppression. After the SOST was completed then the RST was given to the participants. RST task was created to measure the capacity of the verbal working memory. The participants were told to real aloud a string of sentences while simultaneously remembering an underlined word, which was the “target word”. After the string of sentences had been read the participant was told to orally recall the target
The class article that we have read today discusses the Picture span test: Measuring visual working memory capacity involved in remembering and comprehension. This articles primary focus is going to be looking at the concept of working memory and how it actually works and is able to function alongside all other kinds of memory. The beginning of this article starts off by trying to determine the relationship between working memory and cognitive abilities. According to Alan Baddeley these two functions are attached to specific domains within the mind. Baddeley developed a model of working memory, which helps tell us the parallel transfer of information within the phonological loop.
Baddeley’s model of working memory had multiple parts to it, the first of which is a domain-general excusive part and two domain-specific storage parts; these parts all called the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketch pad, and the central executive. The phonological loop is what holds the sequences of acoustic or speech related items. Next the visuo-spatial sketchpad is what contains the visually and or spatially items that encoded. Finally the central executive is an attentionally–limited function that …show more content…
The participants were shown a set of recognizable objects with a particular colored background; none of the target objects were the same color as the background to help avoid blending in. Now the participants were told to count from 1 to 9 to help with the articulatory suppression. After the SOST was completed then the RST was given to the participants. RST task was created to measure the capacity of the verbal working memory. The participants were told to real aloud a string of sentences while simultaneously remembering an underlined word, which was the “target word”. After the string of sentences had been read the participant was told to orally recall the target