The study casts doubt on the ability of specific tests to check mental abilities under stressful situations, a realistic assessment of human possibilities - to recruit an employee or applicant institution. Working memory, also known as short-term memory, holds information related to the ongoing work and contributes to the solution of the problem.
This is what allows us to remember and reconstruct the earliest steps of long tasks like mathematical transformations. However, when the situation becomes complicated, a significant portion of short-term memory "hammer" type of thought "and if I can manage," "it is imperative to focus" and the like.
They eat "place" that is in a free atmosphere would be given, in fact, solve the problem. And what is especially interesting for people who have small amount of short-term memory - nothing, as a rule, does not occur.
Beilock conducted a series of tests with a large group of students, to divide them into two parts - with a large and a small amount of short-term memory. Then all of them were given math problems. As might be expected, students with a larger "operative" memory (here a direct analogy with computers) - coped with the task faster and much better than their opponents.
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