In ADHD, what ability is WM capacity closely linked to?

• A. Long-Term Memory Storage in LTM
• B. Color Perception
• C. Motor Coordination
• D. Maintaining Attention

Answer: (D)

Working memory capacity helps keep goal-relevant information active so you can stay focused on the task at hand. In ADHD, when WM is taxed, holding onto instructions, rules, and steps becomes hard, so sustaining attention across a task is disrupted. In other words, the ability to maintain the current task in mind directly supports keeping attention anchored on what you’re doing, and deficits in this area explain why attentional control is often impaired.

Long-term memory storage isn’t about keeping the immediate task rules active; color perception is a perceptual process, not about maintaining task-related information; motor coordination involves moving and planning actions, not holding and updating information to sustain attention.