Topic: young South African adults

Aim: Theoretical models of the structure and functioning of adult working memory form the basis for measuring this capacity in research and applied settings. These models conceptualize its structure as varying from a single unitary process to multicomponent structures of up to four components. The latter differentiate between storage and processing capacities and/or between domain (verbal or visuospatial/nonverbal). These models were formulated from young adult (typically student) samples from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and developed (WEIRD), minority world contexts (wealthier reg