The Importance Of Work Memory

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Memory is an action when information passes through three different stages: encoding, storage and retrieval. Encoding permits the recognize things to be changed and stored inside the brain and recollect later from short term or long term memory. All these stages decide whether information is remembered or forgotten. Moreover, there are also modes for memory such as: working memory, and long-term memory.
First, working (Short-term) memory is the boss; because it helps you repeat information several times and move it to the long term memory. Also it is more than thing working together, it may include central executive because in working memory you have all the information stored and it can take the decision of activating something or not, so …show more content…

Working memory has a lot of importance on how learning can occur; it’s the key to learn in a better way. There are several ways children can use working memory to learn. Auditory and visual memories are types of working memory, auditory memory depend on hearing while visual memory depend on seeing these things can be perform in a video since when making video information in auditory and visual memory is stored for oneself and they can be used in any time we need them. In this way you don’t need pay attention to specific things when making a video because working memory is recording everything immediately. For example an English teacher in a class give the students an exercise to do about nouns, here kids will imagine all the rules or methods in order to solve it. If kids have weak working memory they will not solve it because they come with a solution so they have a difficulty in storing on the new information. Beside this, remembering instruction is a way children use working memory to learn. In fact, when kids are asked to do a specific exercise for example about transitions so they should remember the information they learned about it and the new information the teacher explained. If they have weak working memory they will not be able to do them both at the same time. So children will not be able to recall and remember information. Paying attention is a main role for children better learning in other words, when children focus …show more content…

Auditory working memory can help students listen and learn how words are spelled and visual working memory help students know things from its shape and recognize it later from the way it looks like. This can make students read every word or sentence they see so they will become fluent

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