What’s on the Working Memory poster
A 4-row table: Component · Handles.
Baddeley and Hitch, with the episodic buffer added in 2000.
- Central executive — Attention, control, allocation
- Phonological loop — Verbal and auditory information
- Visuospatial sketchpad — Visual and spatial information
- Episodic buffer — Integrates across the others and with LTM
Dual-task studies are the key evidence: two verbal tasks interfere; a verbal and a visual task interfere far less.
Questions about the Working Memory poster
- What’s on the Working Memory poster?
- A 4-row table: Component · Handles. Baddeley and Hitch, with the episodic buffer added in 2000. Central executive — Attention, control, allocation; Phonological loop — Verbal and auditory information; Visuospatial sketchpad — Visual and spatial information; Episodic buffer — Integrates across the others and with LTM. Dual-task studies are the key evidence: two verbal tasks interfere; a verbal and a visual task interfere far less.
- Who is the Working Memory poster for?
- Working Memory belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cognitive can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Working Memory poster?
- Four components, not one. That is the whole advance over the multi-store model. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Working Memory belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Working Memory?
- Attention, Cognitive Load and Decision Making sit alongside Working Memory in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AttentionCognitive LoadDecision Making
- Is the Working Memory poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Working Memory downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Working Memory poster print at?
- Working Memory is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Working Memory loses nothing.Printing guide
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