Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0640 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sensory Memory
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The idea
Sensory memory holds a brief, high-capacity trace of incoming sensory information for a fraction of a second.
In practice
A sparkler moved quickly in a dark room appears to draw a continuous line of light.
Where people slip
Sensory memory is not attended to. Nearly all of it decays before anything is selected from it.
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