According to the Discussion at the Beginning of the Chapter

question 2

Multiple Choice

According to the discussion at the beginning of the chapter on working memory (Chapter 4) ,

• A) most psychologists now believe that working memory has an unlimited capacity.
• B) working memory allows you to keep information accessible so that you can use it on a variety of current tasks.
• C) psychologists now agree that working memory and long-term memory have very different functions.
• D) working memory is the brief storage period prior to short-term memory in the classical information-processing models.

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