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Summarize the article you found. Make sure your summary answers the following two questions.

Overview.

Working memory can be described as a limited ability or one’s capacity to store and retain details for a short period while performing mental activities on that given information. Worth noting is that working memory is made up of several system components, which may include central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketch, and episodic buffer. Working memory should be conceived as a process and not something as many may think.

What skill/ability/behavior does it discuss as associated with working memory?

The article summarizes the interconnection between executive functions and the working memory, and perhaps it extends its discussion on how working memory influences most of the cognitive driven activities. It should be understood that executive functions are self-regulatory skills that exclusively rely on the mental processes that enable human beings to plan, maintain focus, and facilitate one to be able to conduct multiples duties more successfully. For normal functioning human beings, executive functioning skills are at their peak between the ages of 22-30, which allows many people within that age bracket to monitor their progress in life (NCBI, 2015).

How does working memory contribute to this skill/ability/behavior?

Through many research and experiments conducted within the NCBI article on the relationship between executive functioning skills and working memory, it was evident that the construct approach indicates weaker processing speed and episodic memory become sacksful weak and weaker among individual age-aged 60 years and above as opposed to teens whose working memory indicate an increased executive functioning skills. Working memory to a high-level influence the execution ability of one’s executive functions skills (McLeod, 2016).

Answer the following: What working memory component (i.e., phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, or central executive) seems to be most important for the application you found? Why?

I found that central executive memory was one of the working memories that was most important. Unlike other working memory components, which only participate in the storage of details, the central executive remains the most versatile crucial component of working memory because of its ability to enable working memory to selectively attend to some needy stimuli while ignoring less valuable ones.

References

NCBI. (2015). The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Functioning: Evidence for a Common Executive Attention Construct. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852635/