Given below are two statements: Statement I: In short term memory, the sensory…
2023
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: In short term memory, the sensory information is preserved and retained in the form and shape as it was originally received.
Statement II: In immediate memory, sensory information is subject to a process of encoding for being retained in the form of special visual and auditory impressions, symbols, signs and words.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: B. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect — CONCEPTThe memory sequence distinguishes a sensory register from short-term memory. The sensory register briefly preserves modality-specific traces close to…
- A.
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
- B.
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
- C.
Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
- D.
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
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Correct answer: B
CONCEPT
The memory sequence distinguishes a sensory register from short-term memory. The sensory register briefly preserves modality-specific traces close to the original stimulus.
Information that receives attention moves into short-term memory, where it is encoded into usable visual, auditory, verbal, or symbolic form; it is not simply retained as an unchanged sensory copy.
APPLICATION
Statement I assigns unchanged, original-form preservation to short-term memory, although that property belongs to the sensory register. Statement II assigns encoding into visual, auditory, symbolic, and verbal representations to immediate sensory storage, although encoding characterizes the transfer into short-term memory.
CROSS-CHECK AND CONTRAST
The choice “Both Statement I and Statement II are correct” would require both reversed stage assignments to hold; the memory sequence does not support that combination.
The choice “Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect” follows because each statement assigns one stage’s defining operation to the other.
The choice “Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect” retains the raw-trace attribution to short-term memory, which conflicts with the sensory-register stage.
The choice “Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct” retains the encoding attribution to immediate sensory storage, which conflicts with transfer into short-term memory.
A visual or auditory stimulus first leaves a brief modality-specific trace in sensory memory.
Attention selects part of that trace for encoding into short-term memory.
The two statements attach these operations to the opposite memory stages.
Therefore, Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.