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Cognitive Psychology
Category: Psychology | Type: Essay | Style: APA | Level: Master | Pages: 6
Working Memory (WM) is a very newly adopted phenomenon of short-term memory (STM), a significant theoretical framework within cognitive psychology. This refers to the structural outlines and procedures used for momentarily storing and manipulating of data. In 1974, Baddeley and Hitch proposed multi-component model of working memory, in which they have described that two slave systems are accountable for short-term maintenance of information, one contributes for verbal and acoustic information the phonological loop and the another one contributes to visual equivalent the visuospatial sketchpad, and both are reliant on a third attentively-restricted control system the central executive, ensuring the possibility of conducting more than one task at a given time by virtue of coordination of cognitive processes through the suppression of irrelevant information as well as improper actions. In 2000, Baddeley added a new component to the existing model, known as the episodic buffer, representing the integration of phonological, visual and spatial information in addition to semantic information, musical information, particularly not covered by the traditional slave systems.
Keywords: working memory, short-term memory, cognitive psychology, language acquisition, language Perception
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