Working memory model evaluations

Question 1

How does patient EVR refute the central exec?

Answer 1

• After having a tumour removed from his brain he had good reasoning skills but poor decision making skills

Question 2

How does the findings of patient EVR suggest the central exec is more complex than first proposed?

Answer 2

• One of the factors that the central exec is in charge of (decision making) was not entirely intact but another (reasoning) was, this suggest multiple components within the central exec.

Question 3

How does patient KF support the WMM?

Answer 3

Patient KF had poor STM regarding verbal info (phonological loop) but could process visual info normally (visuo-spatial sketchpad). This suggest that these components occupy two diff spheres of the brain.

Question 4

What is a counter to patient KF as supporting research?

Answer 4

He has brain damage due to his motorcycles accident which suggest he may be unreliable because his case is unique to his traumatic experiences.

Question 5

Who found supporting research for dual-task performance?

Answer 5

Baddeley et al

Question 6

What were the findings of Baddeley’s research concerning dual-task performance?

Answer 6

-Participants performed better doing a visual and verbal task rather than 2 visual task (Tracking a light and describing then letter F)