Vocabulary
The part of the working memory model processes language and sounds, including those you hear and make.
What is the phonological loop?
When you silently remind yourself about something you need to do in the future or how to use some complicated equipment.
What is self-instruction?
Alternate names for the visuospatial sketchpad
What are visuospatial working memory, and short-term visual memory?
The act of silently saying the words in your head while reading
What is subvocalization?
Examples of using the phonological loop
What are learning a new language, producing language, mathematical calculations, and problem-solving?
True or False: people have trouble performing two visuospatial tasks at the same time
What is true?
When people are likely to confuse similar-sounding stimuli
What is acoustic confusions?
Parts of the brain that are activated by the phonological loop.
What is part of the frontal lobe and part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere of the brain?
Visual and spatial tasks typically activate several regions in the...
What is the right hemisphere of the cortex?
Our ability temporarily to hold visual and spatial information
What is visuospatial sketchpad?
The part of the brain that might be activated when you rehearse verbal material
What is the left frontal lobe?
True or false: Students in psychology and other social sciences probably use their visuospatial sketchpad more often than their phonological loop.
What is false? Students in psychology and other social sciences probably use their phonological loop more often than their visuospatial sketchpad.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
The part of the brain that might be activated when you store auditory information
What is the left parietal lobe?
Examples of using the visuospatial sketchpad
What are when you try to find your way from one location to another, when you track a moving object, video games, jigsaw puzzles, and games involving a maze