Asked by Bobby Mangum on Jul 14, 2024

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Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ___________.

A) the sensory registers
B) short-term memory
C) long-term memory
D) the hippocampus

Visual Sensation

The experience of receiving and interpreting light through the eyes, leading to the perception of objects, colors, and movements in the environment.

Sensory Registers

The initial processing systems that hold incoming information from the senses for a very brief period, allowing it to be perceived.

  • Determine and separate the distinctions between sensory, short-term, and long-term memory types.
  • Describe the functioning of sensory memory and its types: iconic and echoic memory.
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Wanda YazzieJul 18, 2024
Final Answer :
A
Explanation :
The sensory registers are responsible for receiving and temporarily holding incoming sensory information, such as visual sensations like a passing automobile, for only a fraction of a second before they decay or are transferred to other memory systems.