Paul is driving to his friend peter’s house for the first time. paul has a map, but because he is on a busy highway, he can glance at the map only every few minutes. between these glances, paul keeps a picture of the map in his head by using the component of working memory.

visuo-spatial sketchpad

Explanation:

Visuospatial sketchpad: This is one of the three components of the Working Memory Model developed by Graham Hitch and Alan Baddeley in 1974.

The Visuospatial sketchpad or VSS is considered to be an important constituent in the use of working memory. This is in charge of processing and storing information present in spatial or visual form, also the speed or location of objects found in space. It requires strategic or top-down processing.

This is the mental facility that allows a virtual environment for calculation, optical memory recall, and physical stimulation.

Hence, Paul is using the visuospatial sketchpad of his memory.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)