Evaluate The Working Memory Model

The Working memory model, proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 has great significance as it developed the multi-store model of Atkinson and Shiffrin which proposed that information was stored in specific locations; the short-term store, long-term store and the sensory store, along with suggesting the new idea of central executive and its slave systems.

The Central executive is the element which is involved in a higher mental process such as decision making, as it can co-ordinate performances when more than one thing is being done at the same time. Even though it has a limited capacity, it can process information in any modality whether it is auditory or visual.

One of the three main slave systems that cooperate with the central executive is the Phonological loop. The
The articulatory control process is linked to the production of speech, as it is used to rehearse and store verbal information from the
It plays quite an important role in our movement, as it helps us keep track of where we are in relation to other objects. This system also displays and manipulates visual and spatial information held in long-term memory. For example, the spatial layout of the certain place that person remembers is held in Long-term memory. Visuospatial sketchpad is composed of two components which an into visual and spatial components. One component mainly focuses on the recognition of the pattern, whereas the other component is based on spatial awareness and movement. Moreover, in 1995, Logie suggested that the Visuospatial scratchpad is split into two different sub store; visual cache which stores visual material about form or colour and inner scribe which handles the spatial relationships and rehearses, transfer information in the visual cache to the Central