In Baddeley’s model of memory, the ________ controls how information moves around the system.
a. visuospatial sketchpad
b. central executive
c. episodic buffer
d. phonological loop
Answer: b. central executive
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A) black versus white, red versus green, and blue versus yellow B) black versus gray and white versus colored C) grayscales, blue versus red and green versus yellow D) blue versus green and red versus yellow
Billy has just returned home from visiting his grandparents. His grandfather always had a jar of jelly beans on the table, and his mother asked Billy about the jar
"Sure," says Billy, "it was right there where it always was." Billy's mother knew that the jar was gone. The grandfather had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and had cut down on his sugar intake. Why did Billy remember seeing the jar of jelly beans? A) he probably has a damaged hippocampus B) he was using the representativeness heuristic C) he had repressed the memory of his trip D) he reconstructed his memory using new and old information