... where is said that 7+/- pieces of information can be rehearsed at once (Styles, 2005). Thus if memory was acting as a tape recorder it would remember more than just the magic seven. Additionally, there would be no need of any kind of rehearsal in order to keep all the information input. Baddeley (1998) thought that Atkinson & Shiffrin's idea was too simple because the processes by which the information was categorised and stored was not taking into account. He came up with the idea of Working Memory. Working memory is a term used to cover up all components of short time memory and the attention control required to hold, rehearse, and manipulate the information while other processes work on it (Andrade, 2001). Baddeley identified different components within our memory: a central executive that supervises the overall process and two subcomponents for phonological and visuospatial meaning. Therefore, if we are watching ...

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