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The visuo-spatial sketchpad specifically stores and manipulates visual and spatial information."}]},{"id":"e2e5a6a0-245e-4012-b2c2-9762beb68c70","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"The [ ] stores form and colour; the [ ] handles spatial relationships and movement.","back":"The visual cache stores form and colour; the inner scribe handles spatial relationships and movement.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The visual cache stores form and colour; the inner scribe handles spatial relationships and movement.","correct":true,"explanation":"The visuo-spatial sketchpad is divided by function: the visual cache retains appearance, form and colour, while the inner scribe processes locations, movement and spatial arrangements."},{"text":"The inner scribe stores form and colour; the visual cache handles spatial relationships and movement.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the two visuo-spatial subsystems. The visual cache stores form and colour, whereas the inner scribe processes spatial relationships and movement."},{"text":"The visual cache stores form and colour; the central executive handles spatial relationships and movement.","correct":false,"explanation":"The central executive controls attention rather than directly processing movement and spatial relationships. The visual cache stores form and colour, while the inner scribe handles spatial information."},{"text":"The episodic buffer stores form and colour; the inner scribe handles spatial relationships and movement.","correct":false,"explanation":"The episodic buffer integrates information across memory systems rather than specialising in visual appearance. 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That multi-modal binding function belongs to the episodic buffer."},{"text":"The visuo-spatial sketchpad.","correct":false,"explanation":"The visuo-spatial sketchpad processes visual and spatial material rather than combining information across working memory and long-term memory. Integration is performed by the episodic buffer."}]},{"id":"cc39b2e4-b36e-4256-84ec-c6d5c1d41c1f","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"The episodic buffer uses [ ] and has a capacity of around [ ].","back":"The episodic buffer uses multi-modal coding and has a capacity of around four chunks.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The episodic buffer uses multi-modal coding and has a capacity of around four chunks.","correct":true,"explanation":"The episodic buffer combines information from different sensory forms and memory systems, so its coding is multi-modal. Its limited capacity is estimated at approximately four chunks."},{"text":"The episodic buffer uses unimodal coding and has a capacity of around seven chunks.","correct":false,"explanation":"This combines two misconceptions: the buffer integrates several modalities rather than one, and seven chunks reflects older short-term memory estimates. It uses multi-modal coding and holds around four chunks."},{"text":"The episodic buffer uses multi-modal coding and has a capacity of around seven chunks.","correct":false,"explanation":"The coding type is correct, but seven chunks comes from older estimates of general short-term memory capacity. The episodic buffer’s capacity is around four chunks."},{"text":"The episodic buffer uses acoustic coding and has a capacity of around four chunks.","correct":false,"explanation":"The capacity is correct, but acoustic coding is associated with verbal processing in the phonological loop. 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The key weakness was explaining integration across stores and links to LTM."}]},{"id":"b6b68a8f-afc9-4f67-8c2b-1d98e246d7cb","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"In a spoken-postcode task, which second task disrupts recall more: repeating words or mentally rotating a shape?","back":"Repeating words.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Repeating words.","correct":true,"explanation":"A spoken-postcode task uses the phonological loop, so repeating words disrupts the same verbal-acoustic store and interferes more strongly with recall."},{"text":"Mentally rotating a shape.","correct":false,"explanation":"Mental rotation mainly uses the visuo-spatial sketchpad, so it interferes less with a spoken-postcode task. Repeating words is more disruptive because both tasks use the phonological loop."},{"text":"Watching a static picture.","correct":false,"explanation":"Looking at a static visual stimulus would mainly involve visual processing, not the verbal-acoustic coding needed for a spoken postcode. 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Repeating words competes for the phonological loop.
Mental rotation mainly uses the visuo-spatial sketchpad.

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Repeating words competes for the phonological loop.
Mental rotation mainly uses the visuo-spatial sketchpad.

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Repeating words competes for the visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Mental rotation mainly uses the phonological loop.

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Repeating words competes for the central executive.
Mental rotation mainly uses the episodic buffer.

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Repeating words competes for the visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Mental rotation mainly uses long-term memory.

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Reasoning became slower.
Participants could still do both tasks.

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Reasoning became slower.
Participants could still do both tasks.

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Reasoning became impossible.
Participants could only do one task.

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Reasoning became faster.
Participants could still do both tasks.

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Reasoning stayed unchanged.
Participants could not do both tasks.

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Verbal/acoustic STM was very poor.
Visual STM was less impaired.

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Verbal/acoustic STM was very poor.
Visual STM was less impaired.

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Verbal/acoustic STM was intact.
Visual STM was very poor.

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Verbal/acoustic STM was very poor.
Visual STM was equally impaired.

","correct":false,"explanation":"If both stores were equally impaired, KF would not show a clear dissociation. The support comes from verbal-acoustic STM being much worse than visual STM."},{"text":"

Verbal/acoustic LTM was very poor.
Visual LTM was less impaired.

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KF’s limitation is the opposite: he was one individual, so the findings may not apply widely."},{"text":"KF was an animal study, so extrapolation is limited.","correct":false,"explanation":"KF was a human patient, not an animal study. The real limitation is that evidence from one individual has limited generalisability to other people."},{"text":"KF was a questionnaire, so validity is limited.","correct":false,"explanation":"KF refers to a patient case study, not a questionnaire method. The main limitation is that conclusions are based on one individual, reducing generalisability."}]},{"id":"7d8161d3-ff02-4a19-adba-183f7abd90aa","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What brain-imaging finding supports separate WMM components?","back":"Verbal and spatial tasks activate different brain areas.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Verbal and spatial tasks activate different brain areas.","correct":true,"explanation":"Different activation patterns during verbal and spatial tasks support the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad as functionally distinct working-memory components."},{"text":"Verbal and spatial tasks activate the same brain areas.","correct":false,"explanation":"Assuming identical activation reverses the actual finding. Verbal and spatial tasks activate different brain areas, supporting separate phonological and visuospatial components."},{"text":"Short-term and long-term tasks activate different brain areas.","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses the WMM with the distinction between memory stores. The relevant finding is that verbal and spatial tasks activate different areas, supporting separate WMM components."},{"text":"Simple and difficult tasks activate different brain areas.","correct":false,"explanation":"Differences caused by task difficulty would not demonstrate distinct working-memory systems. Evidence for separate components comes from verbal and spatial tasks activating different brain areas."}]},{"id":"f36b265c-85c6-4318-afb9-ebfa85b24110","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is brain-imaging evidence for the WMM limited?","back":"It is correlational: activity does not prove sole responsibility.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It is correlational: activity does not prove sole responsibility.","correct":true,"explanation":"Brain scans show an association between regional activity and task performance, but cannot establish that an active area alone causes or is solely responsible for a WMM function."},{"text":"It is experimental: activity proves sole responsibility.","correct":false,"explanation":"Brain-imaging studies do not establish sole causal responsibility merely by controlling tasks. The evidence is correlational because observed activity may accompany, rather than cause, a memory function."},{"text":"It is longitudinal: activity changes prove sole responsibility.","correct":false,"explanation":"Tracking brain activity over time would not by itself establish causation. Brain-imaging support remains correlational because activation does not prove an area is solely responsible for a component."},{"text":"It is naturalistic: activity directly proves sole responsibility.","correct":false,"explanation":"Naturalistic evidence concerns realism rather than causal certainty. Brain-imaging findings are limited because they are correlational, so activation cannot prove sole responsibility for a working-memory process."}]},{"id":"20d4150f-cf48-47eb-b02d-b2869ca607c8","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is the central executive criticised as vague?","back":"It can become a catch-all, reducing testability.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can become a catch-all, reducing testability.","correct":true,"explanation":"The central executive is often used to explain any attentional process not handled elsewhere in the model, making its precise functions difficult to define and test scientifically."},{"text":"It can become a single store, increasing testability.","correct":false,"explanation":"Treating the central executive as a single storage system confuses it with memory stores. It is criticised as a catch-all explanation whose poorly specified functions reduce testability."},{"text":"It can become a fixed capacity, improving testability.","correct":false,"explanation":"Limited capacity is a feature of working memory, but it does not explain the vagueness criticism. The central executive can become a catch-all category, reducing scientific testability."},{"text":"It can become a precise mechanism, reducing flexibility.","correct":false,"explanation":"The criticism is not that the central executive is too precisely specified. Its functions are insufficiently defined, allowing it to become a catch-all and making predictions difficult to test."}]}]}],"examCountdown":{"examDate":"2027-05-18","paperLabel":"Paper 1"},"heading":"Working memory model","title":"Working memory model Flashcards","topbar":{"backHref":"/a-level/psychology/aqa/flashcards"},"topicSidebar":"$L38"}]}],"topicId":"e54310d3-1c93-5a49-bd38-1472650a3092","walled":"$L39"}],"$L3a","$L3b"]