Gillian is assembling a bookcase. She studies one of the diagrams in the instructions and then looks for the parts she needs and begins to put them together
According to the working memory model discussed in your textbook, which part of Gillian's memory remembers what the parts in the diagram looked like while she works?
A) the phonological loop
B) the central executive
C) the episodic buffer
D) the visuospatial sketchpad
Answer: D
Rationale: The visuospatial sketchpad is a storage component of working memory that maintains visual images and spatial layouts in a visuospatial code. In this example, the visuospatial sketchpad stores the image of the diagram, so Gillian can compare it to the parts she is actually looking at.
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