APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Working Hard to Remember: A Component Analysis of Working Memory in College Students

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cognitive

  • Ann Johnson
    Ohio Northern University
  • Coral Shuster
    Ohio Northern University
  • Clara Huffman
    Ohio Northern University
  • Sara Lininger
    Ohio Northern University
  • Keely Wagner
    Ohio Northern University
  • Ian Smith
    Ohio Northern University
  • Kaitlyn Hurd
    Ohio Northern University

Abstract

Procrastination may be related to deficits in working memory. We examined both the active maintenance and the secondary storage components of working memory among college students split into high and low procrastination groups and found that there were few differences between those self-reporting high and low procrastination behaviors.

Memory

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