The Working Memory Model Was Proposed By Baddeley And Hitch

10), an embedded approach, investigating the complexity of relationships of graphophonic knowledge. Additional activities to support phonics instruction include building word lists based on common elements (Pinnell & Fountas, 1998, p. 157), segmenting words into onset and rime (Emmitt et al, 2013, p.12) and the introduction of high frequency or sight words through modelling and sight words games such as flash cards, sentence strips, bingo, word shapes and extensive reading (Fellows & Oakley, 2010, p. 219) ensuring students reach a point of automaticity (Konza, 2016, p. 157), as sight words feature sounds that contradict the rules for learning the 44 phonemes and the point of automaticity allows higher-level comprehension processes to occur due to available cognitive

The central executive directs the flow of information. It functions more with delegating the way resources are used in cognitive tasks. The central executive also coordinates information from the person’s current environment with retrieval of their prior information (119). The phonological loop is used to carry out rehearsed maintained verbal material. It plays an important role in the acquisition of vocabulary, learning how to read, and comprehending language. The visuospatial sketchpad maintains material through visualization. The visuospatial sketchpad creates and manages our mental images. The episodic buffer is a temporary system that connects information from long term memory to working memory.

Short term memory is a part of the memory storage system. This is capable of storing information for a very short period of time as the duration that short term memory is limited. This was researched by psychologists Peterson and Peterson in 1959, they conducted a huge

Phonemic awareness is an understanding of spoken language. Phonological awareness entails understanding of spoken language and involves tasks such as rhyming words; comparing initial sounds; determining the number of phonemes in a word; identifying two sections in a compound word and separating syllables. Phonemic awareness includes tasks of individual phonemes or within words such as blending, deleting, substituting and moving. Townend (2000) clarifies that phonological awareness is the accurate perception of all the individual sounds, or phonemes, within a spoken word. It also includes the perception of relationships between sounds, such as

Phonological awareness involves the detection and manipulation of sounds at three levels of sound structure: (1) syllables, (2) onsets and rimes, and (3) phonemes.

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This supports the idea of an immediate memory store for items that are neither visual nor phonological and that draw on long-term memory to link the related words. It is used as both the Phonological Loop and the Visuo-Spatial Sketch Pad have specific roles and the Central Executive has very limited storage capacity so as a result there was no where to store both visual and acoustic information. The Episodic Buffer is an extra storage system that has in common with all working memory units, a limited capacity. It is handy and can integrate information from the Central Executive, The Phonological Loop, The Visuo-Spatial Sketch Pad and also information from the Long-Term Memory.

It is helpful to think of it as the system that you use to mentally rehearse information by repeating it over and over again4. And the Phonological Store (The Inner Ear – but not to be confused with the canals in your actual ear) The phonological store uses a sound based code to store information, but this information decays after about 2 seconds, unless it is rehearsed by the articulatory control system. The phonological store receives its input either directly from the ears or from long term memory. If you imagine your favourite piece of music you are using your phonological store.5 The phonological loop explains why the word length effect occurs – the fact that people cope better with short words than long words in working memory (short-term memory). It would appear that the phonological loop holds the amount of information that you can say within 2 seconds (Baddeley et al, 1975). This makes it hard to remember a list of long words such as ‘anthropomorphic’ and ‘representative’ compared to shorter words like ‘walk’ or ‘again’. The longer can’t be rehearsed on the phonological loop because they don’t fit (into the two second limit). But the word length effect goes away if a person is given an articulatory suppression task, for instance if you are asked to say ‘the the the…’ while reading a group of words. This repetitive task ties up the articulatory process and means you can’t rehearse the shorter words more quickly than the

Phonology – use of sounds and how sounds are organized and used in natural languages.

According to Baddeley (2012), the phonological loop is assumed to comprise a short-term storage system that holds information in phonological form (the phonological store) together with a control process that maintains and rehearses information vocally or subvocally (the articulatory control process). Furthermore, spoken words enter the phonological store directly however, written material has to be recoding into phonological form before entering the phonological store (Repovs & Baddeley, 2006). In the phonological store, memory traces are assumed to decay in a few seconds however, a function of the articulatory control process is to refresh this memory trace by reciting the information subvocally which then re-enters the phonological store

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Further evidence for the existence of the phonological loop comes from Conrads and Hulls (1975 in Passer, 2009) experiment in which they examined the effect of phonological similarity. They found that serial recall in a list of similar sounding words tended to yield poorer results with participants finding it difficult to remember compared to words that sounded different. It has also been found that recall in semantically similar words tended to have little or no effect, supporting the idea that verbal information is transferred in a phonological manner in working memory. In addition, Vallar and Papagno (1995 in Smith, 2007) found that the phonological store in brain damaged patients were dysfunctional.

Dispensing drugs appropriately can be a cognitively challenging task because it requires working memory which is limited in capacity. In Baddeley’s Revised Model of Working Memory, there are three main components: Episodic Buffer, Visuospatial Sketchpads and Phonological Loop. In a typical task, the pharmacist will read the doctor’s prescription, put the order down and search for the products on the medicine shelf. In the reading process, the brain converts the names of the drug from visual modality to auditory patterns. As the pharmacist put the order down, pattern of the texts in the iconic memory will quickly decay within one second. The echoic memory will temporarily hold the name of the drugs for a few seconds in the phonological loop,

Mrs. F is having difficulty following recipes while cooking as she is unable to mentally adjust the amount of each ingredient called for in order to make only two portions. This is because of a deficit in her memory, specifically her working memory (WM). While memory is defined as the “storage of things learned and retained from an organism’s activity or experience” (Merriam-Webster, 2015), WM can be described as the cognitive systems that are required to temporarily store and manipulate information (Baddeley, 2012). This report provides an overview of the theoretical multicomponent WM framework as well as an in-depth look at one component of the framework, termed the phonological loop (PL).

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