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Evaluate the working memory model introduced by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974. It is a model of short term memory.  

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Evaluate the working memory model It was Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch who first introduced the working memory model in 1974.It is a model of short term memory. It was argued that the picture of short term memory provided by the multi store model was far too simple. The mulit store model shows short term memory to hold limited information for short periods of time with little or no processing. It says it's a single system (unitary) and has no separate parts that specialise in different things. To look at the working memory model, devised by Baddeley and Hitch it provides us with a much more complex and detailed picture of short term memory. The working memory model is not considered a unitary system and has lots of separate parts to it. The initial view of short term memory saw the information being held and rehearsed in short term memory and...

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