Suppose That You Have Been Watching a Figure Skating Competition

question 71

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you have been watching a figure skating competition. You close your eyes and you try to remember how the last skater performed her final jump, then glided to the center of the rink and finished with a spin. The component of your working memory that is now most active is

• A) the phonological loop.
• B) the visuospatial sketchpad.
• C) the episodic buffer.
• D) the central executive

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Definitions:

Symmetry

A characteristic where an object or design is made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.

Unit of Measurement

A definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same quantity.

Modality

The number of peaks or high points in the frequency distribution of a dataset.

Variability

The degree to which data points in a distribution or set diverge from the central value (mean or median), indicating how spread out the data are.