sensory memory

Cards (7)

  • the model
  • 1 Coding
    Sensory memory primarily encodes information in a sensory-specific manner, such as visual, auditory, or Qactile coding.
  • 2 Duration
    Sensory memory has a very brief duration, typically lasting less than a second for visual information and up to a few seconds for other senses.
  • 3 Capacity
     Sensory memory has a large capacity, able to hold a complete image or sound for a short period of time before the information fades or is transferred to Oshort-term memory.
  • Capacity

    Unknown but very large
  • duration
    Very limited (approximately 250 ms)
  • coding
    Raw/unprocessed information
    (from all 5 senses)