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Another term used to describe the working memory is short term-memory. Short-term memory is sometimes only thought of as a temporary information storage area; (Klahr & Kotovsky, p. 32) as keeping a phone number until we dial it. However, in reality, short-term memory is much more important. We need our short-term memory for vital cognitive processes as reasoning, language understanding, and mental arithmetic. Short-term memory is also used as a stepping point for information to be later stored in long-term memory. (Klahr & Kotovsky, p. 32)

Klahr, D. & Kotovsky, K., eds., 1989,’Complex Information Processing: The Impact of Herbert A. Simon’, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,Hillsdale, NJ, USA.