How do sensory, short-term, and long-term memory differ?
What will be an ideal response?
Sensory memory includes auditory and visual memories and is also known as "trace" memories. They are extremely short in duration and small in capacity. Short-term memory is slightly longer than sensory memory and may be kept active through memory strategies such as rehearsal. Short-term memory has a rather small capacity. Long-term memory has no known duration or capacity.
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