Characterize working memory in terms of its limitations. With two examples from your experience or personal observation, illustrate how an excessive load on working memory can cause problems in learning tasks, skills (such as reading or writing), or

Question

problem solving.
Describe a situation in which a learner could use practice, or a learning strategy, to help overcome learning problems caused by working memory overload. Using concepts from the information-processing model, explain how the practice or learning strategy aids learning.

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Working memory is limited in both capacity and duration. In reading a long sentence or paragraph, comprehension is hindered if, in order to grasp the meaning, the learner must store a large amount of information in working memory (more than about seven items).
One possible example is: reading a long sentence repeatedly helps to ease the load on working memory.
The repeated reading involves practice. The practice enables the learner to make use of information from long-term-memory, to reorganize the smaller units of the sentence into larger ideas, reducing the number of items in working memory, and thus easing comprehension/learning.