Vocabulary
A person that feels sad, discouraged, and hopeless and typically reports feeling fatigued with little interest in leisure activities is displaying symptoms of____?
MAJOR DEPRESSION
True or false? Studies show that individuals suffering from Major Depression only experience issues which their Visuospatial Sketchpad, while individuals suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD), experience issues with the Phonological Loop, and with their Visuospatial Sketchpad.
False. Studies show that both individuals suffering from major depression and individuals suffering from GAD have issues with all aspects of their working memory.
What is the Phonological Loop?
A component of working memory that processes language and other sounds that you hear.
Gary Christopher and John MacDonald studied how _____________ affects working working memory.
What is Major Depression?
A person that is experiencing inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity is suffering from____?
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).
Which component of Baddeley's model of working memory was not part of the original three?
The Episodic Buffer.
What is the Visuospatial Sketchpad?
A component of working memory that processes both visual and spatial information.
What are the components of Baddeley's model of working memory?
The Phonological Loop, Visuospatial Sketchpad, Episodic Buffer, and the Central Executive.
A person that exhibits a debilitating, chronic, persistent, excessive worry to the point that it impedes one's social and occupation life is suffering from _____.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
Which component of working memory is most impaired by individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)?
The Central Executive.
What are two major functions of the Central Executive?
The Central Executive:
-Integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, the episodic buffer and long-term memory.
-Focuses attention
-Suppresses irrelevant information
-Switches between tasks
Hayes, Hirsch, and Mathews studied how _____ affects working memory.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
______ is the worry about all the things that are wrong in their life.
A Ruminative Style.
What two lobes in the left hemisphere of the brain are activated (and for what process) during phonological tasks?
The frontal lobe is activated for rehearsal, and the parietal lobe is activated for storage.
What is the least understood component of working memory?
The Central Executive.
Baddeley and Hitch demonstrated that people could perform a ____ and a ____ simultaneously, with minimal reduction in speed and accuracy on either task.
Verbal task, Spatial task