Memory & Forgetting
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Which of the following psychological statements is most authentic and scientifically valid regarding the actual psychological implications of 'Sensory Memory'—the initial mental store defined by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin's Information Processing Model—and its scientific operation in classroom teaching concerning students' selective attention, information filtering, and transfer to short-term memory?
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According to the Information Processing Model proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin, sensory memory is the very first stage of the memory system that holds vast amounts of sensory information from the environment for an extremely brief duration (typically less than 1 second).
- High Capacity, Short Duration: It has a very large capacity, but its duration is negligible.
- Selective Attention: If a teacher uses engaging, clear, and targeted stimuli during classroom instruction, learners use selective attention to transfer essential information into their short-term memory.
- Decay: Otherwise, the information present in the sensory register is automatically lost or decays rapidly.
Therefore, option (b) provides the most authentic and scientifically accurate description of this concept.
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