One of the Purposes of Sensory Memory Is to Hold

Multiple Choice

One of the purposes of sensory memory is to hold sensations long enough for the brain to process them. The sensory information from various modalities (sight, hearing, etc.) is held for differing lengths of time, corresponding to the amount of information carried by a modality in a set period of time, before they are deleted. Knowing this, a researcher would expect information to be held longer in sensory memory than information.

A) hearing; visual
B) touch; hearing
C) visual; hearing
D) visual; touch
E) hearing; touch