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Do you think the retrieval process is easier for sensory memories? How so?

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1. Do you think the retrieval process is easier for sensory memories? How so?

It depends on several factors.

Let's get some definitions out of the way first, which will help to understand how if it is easy (or not) to retrieve sensory memories and what factors impact this process.

Sensory memory is the earliest stage of memory and holds information long enough to be processed for basic characteristics. Capacity is large and can hold many items at once. Duration is very brief- fraction of a second to 3 second for visual sensory memories (brief memory of an image or icon-iconic memory) and up to 2 seconds for auditory sensory memories (brief memory of a sound or echo, thus referred ...

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