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Mr. Wonderful · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a full-time cognitive overload. This phrase suggests that

a. people need to write down phrases as soon as they are created, to reduce this overload problem.
b. decision making is a central component of writing, so that writers can reject ideas that are not productive.
c. it's important to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory, prior to writing them down.
d. writers typically use all the components of working memory, as well as long-term memory.

Question 2

Chapter 10 discussed research by Kellogg and his colleagues, which examined the cognitive components of writing. According to this research,

a. the phonological loop does not appear to be involved during any form of writing.
b. the phonological loop is involved when we write a complete sentence, but not when we are writing a short word.
c. the spatial component of the visuospatial sketchpad is involved when we are writing about concrete nouns.
d. the visual component of the visuospatial sketchpad is involved when we are writing about abstract concepts.