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.
Ans: b
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