At a café, a cup of coffee costs $2.82. To use exact change, you must hold the number 2.82 in your head while sorting through yo
ur wallet and calculating what coins you have. To be successful in actively processing this information, you must keep the information maintained in short-term storage by using your ________ memory.
Working memory is a system the brain uses for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks. The central executive part of the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain is responsible for working memory. It serves as a temporary store for short-term memory, where information is kept available while it is needed for current reasoning processes.
So to be successful in holding the number 2.82 in my head while sorting, one must keep the information maintained in short-term storage by using one's working memory.
