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psychologists think that the Working Memory Model is too…

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simplistic and vague

2
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the model doesn’t really explain exactly what…

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the central executive is apart from being involved in attention

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it is difficult to design tasks to…

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test the central executive

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the model only explains how…

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information is dealt with in the short term memory

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it doesn’t explain how information…

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is transferred into long term memory

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what kind of study has mostly supported the working memory model?

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laboratory studies

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because the support is mostly laboratory studies, this reduces the…

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ecological validity

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a highly controlled study might not be…

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representative of what happens in the real world