Gillian is assembling a bookcase. She studies one of the diagrams in the instructions and then looks for the parts she needs and begins to put them together. According to the working memory model discussed in your textbook, which part of Gillian's memory remembers what the parts in the diagram looked like while she works?
A) the phonological loop
B) the central executive
C) the episodic buffer
D) the visuospatial sketchpad

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The visuospatial sketchpad is responsible for storing visual and spatial information, which would be used to remember what the parts in the diagram looked like while assembling the bookcase. The phonological loop is responsible for holding verbal information, the central executive controls attention and the episodic buffer integrates information from different sources into a single memory.

Gillian Is Assembling a Bookcase