Two things contribute to air pollution that can cause an air quality alert: 1  Ground-Level Ozone â High-levels of ground-level ozone are frequently the cause of air quality alerts. Ground-level ozone is created by pollutants such as car exhaust and industrial fumes mixing with oxygen.
Accordingly, working memory has come to be viewed as a flexible system that both maintains current information while supporting the simultaneous execution of higher cognitive functions. âHigher cognitive functionsâ (such as reasoning, comprehension, and learning) are the hallmark of contemporary intelligence test batteries, and form common colloquial descriptions of âintelligenceâ.
The retention of information about the where, when, and what of life's happeningsâthat is, how individuals remember life's episodes. semantic memory. A person's knowledge about the world, including his or her areas of expertise; general knowledge, such as of things learned in school, and everyday knowledge. implicit memory. Also called nondeclarative memory, memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a conscious recollection of that experience.