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Consider the extent to which the working memory model is an improvement over the multi-store model.
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Consider the extent to which the working memory model is an improvement over the multi-store model. The working memory model was researched by Baddeley and Hitch in 1976, and is an improvement over the multi-store model of memory because it is more detailed, and therefore we can learn more about the stores of memory in the brain from it. The main weakness with the multi-store model of memory is that it is over simplified, as it implies that there are only two memory stores, one short-term and one long-term, and that memories are only stored through rehearsal, but this does not seem to be true in real life, as many memories are stored not having been consciously rehearsed. The working memory model was designed by Baddeley and Hitch (1974), and suggested that the short-term memory is actually divided into sections. These sections are the 'central executive', the 'phonological loop', and the...
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