You will have difficulty reading your textbook if you are simultaneously singing the words to your favorite song. How would Alan Baddeley explain this phenomenon?
a. The words from the textbook and the words from the song will interfere with each other in the phonological loop.
b. The visuospatial sketchpad is overcrowded, because both of these tasks have a strong visual component.
c. The central executive cannot handle two verbal tasks at the same time.
d. The singing prevents the words in your textbook from passing directly from semantic memory into long-term memory.
Question 2
You are trying to retainin your working memorya mental picture of a stranger's face. According to Baddeley, you are using your
a. visuospatial sketch pad.
b. episodic buffer
c. phonological loop.
d. central executive.
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