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Quiz on the working memory model notes taken from class and textbook. For AS level psychology
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Question 1

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The working memory model was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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What are the slave systems of the working memory model? (Tick all possible answers)
Answer
  • Central executive
  • Phonological loop
  • Visuo-spatial sketchpad
  • Episodic buffer
  • STM
  • LTM
  • Semantic memory
  • Maintenance rehearsal
  • Sensory memory

Question 3

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What is the function of the Central executive? (Tick all possible answers)
Answer
  • Direct attention to particular tasks
  • Determining how 'resources' are allocated to tasks
  • Preserve the order of information
  • Integrates information from other slave systems
  • To plan spatial tasks

Question 4

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The central executive has no storage capacity
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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What are the two parts of the visuo-spatial sketchpad?
Answer
  • The inner scribe and the visual cache
  • The phonological store and the articulatory process
  • The phonological store and the visual cache
  • The visual cache and the articulatory process
  • The inner scribe and the phonological store
  • The inner scribe and the articultory process

Question 6

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What is the function of the visuo-spatial sketchpad? (Tick all possible answers)
Answer
  • Dealing with auditory information
  • Temporary system for holding visual and spatial information
  • Integrates information from all other components
  • Direct attention to particular tasks
  • Process information from any sensory modality
  • Monitors incoming information

Question 7

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The phonological loop has a limited capacity
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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What is the function of the phonological store?
Answer
  • Holds the words you hear and preserves the order of information
  • Holds what you hear and see; is a form of maintenance rehearsal

Question 9

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The working memory model gives a better account of STM and identifies that it is not a unitary system
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

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The multi-store model is more complicated and harder to apply than the working memory model
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 11

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The working memory model doesn't say how we get information from STM to LTM
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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What is the function of the episodic buffer? (Tick all possible answers)
Answer
  • Acts as a general store
  • Holds information that relates to both and acoustic information
  • Extra storage system with limited capacity
  • Integrates information from all other components
  • Deal with processing and temporary storage of specific types of information
  • Deals with auditory information and deals with the order of information
  • Directs attention to particular tasks
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