Jane hears a strange sound coming from her attic. she wakes her husband and mimics the sound she just heard. in this scenario, jane's _____ is responsible for her ability to retain the memory of the sound long enough to reproduce it.
The sensory memory is capable of remembering this sound after it passes. This is a facet of short-term memory that lets the person perceive and recall a stimulus for a short time. The stimulus is either attended to or quickly decays, so sensory memory is the shortest of the memory types.
