Physical Education A-Level
Working memory components and functions
What Working memory components and functions means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A system for temporarily holding and manipulating information during cognitive tasks, containing a central executive and three slave systems.
Topics that use Working memory components and functions
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Central executive
- Central processing and memory
- Decision making
- Extrinsic feedback
- Feedback
- Information overload
- Information processing
- Input
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