Physical Education A-Level
Central executive
What Central executive means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Central executive
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A limited-capacity attentional controller that allocates resources, switches between tasks and coordinates the phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketchpad.
Topics that use Central executive
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Central processing and memory
- Decision making
- Extrinsic feedback
- Feedback
- Information overload
- Information processing
- Input
- Input stage
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