Tony, who is 4 years older than Frank, is explaining the rules of a game to him. Frank is paying close attention, but Tony is ta
lking fast and using words that Frank does not know. When Tony is finished explaining the directions, he asks Frank if he is ready to play and Frank says that he doesn't understand exactly how to play. What part of memory is Frank having problems in?
Working memory is very important in a human being cognition. Working memory is related to when we try to remember the phone numbers, shopping list and set of information. It is the capacity of mind that holds and manipulates the information into the mind. It is part of the central functioning of the mind. This memory is related to our general information related to our academics and our intelligence. There is a debate till now on the storage capacity of the working memory. Some researchers believed that it has a limited capacity. It can store some chunks, numbers, etc but others believed that it has unlimited resources.
