{"id":5854,"date":"2010-06-02T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2010-06-02T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:45:18","slug":"20-facts-you-must-know-about-working-memory-from-the-e-learning-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/02\/20-facts-you-must-know-about-working-memory-from-the-e-learning-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"20 facts you must know about working memory &#8212; from The E-Learning Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theelearningcoach.com\/learning\/20-facts-about-working-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20  facts you must know about working memory <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from The E-Learning  Coach<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Basics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Working memory used to be called short-term memory. It was redefined  to focus on its functionality rather than its duration.<\/li>\n<li>Working memory can be thought of as the equivalent of being mentally  online. It refers to the temporary workspace where we manipulate and  process information.<\/li>\n<li>No one physical location in the brain appears to be responsible for  creating the capacity of working memory. But several parts of the brain  seem to contribute to this cognitive structure.<\/li>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nCapacity<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>Working memory is characterized by a small capacity. It can hold  around four elements of <em>new<\/em> information at one time.<\/li>\n<li>Because learning experiences typically involve new information, the  capacity of working memory makes it difficult to assimilate more than  around four bits of information simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 facts you must know about working memory &#8212; from The E-Learning Coach Excerpt: The Basics Working memory used to be called short-term memory. It was redefined to focus on its functionality rather than its duration. Working memory can be thought of as the equivalent of being mentally online. It refers to the temporary workspace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,223,78],"tags":[620,629,685,608],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructional-design","category-learning-theories","category-memory","tag-cognitive-psychology-computing","tag-instructional-design","tag-learning-theories","tag-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}