Paper 1 · Teaching Aptitude
UGC NET June 2023 (20.06.2023) Shift-I
The brain system that provides temporary holding and processing of information to accomplish complex cognitive tasks such as language comprehension, learning and reasoning, and holds the information you are focusing on at a given moment, is
AEpisodic memory
BWorking memory ✓ Correct
CSemantic memory
DShort-term memory
Correct answer: (B) Working memory — This system is working memory, so the answer is working memory.
Explanation
★This system is working memory, so the answer is working memory.
★Working memory temporarily holds and actively processes information.
★It supports complex cognitive tasks like language comprehension, learning and reasoning.
★It holds the information one is focusing on at a given moment.
★It is one of the brain's executive functions.
★Short-term memory mainly holds information briefly without such active processing.
★So the system that holds and processes current information is working memory.
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