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question 12
1 pts
the sensory registers________.
○ receive sensory information from the external world
○ are measures of retention
○ retain past information
○ control our attention span

question 13
1 pts
a visual image held in the sensory register is________.
○ icon
○ a pictograph
○ a trace
○ a symbol

question 14
1 pts
the sensory registers have a ______ capacity, and information disappears from them ______.
○ virtually unlimited, quite rapidly
○ very limited, quite rapidly
○ very limited, very slowly
○ virtually unlimited, very slowly

Explanation:

Question 12

Sensory registers are the initial storage for sensory information from the environment. Measures of retention (like recall tests) are different. Retaining past info is more about long - term or short - term memory, not sensory registers. Attention span is controlled by other cognitive mechanisms. So the correct option is the one about receiving sensory info from the external world.

In cognitive psychology, the visual image in the sensory register is called an icon. A pictograph is a symbol representing an object, a trace is a more general term for a memory trace (not specific to sensory register visual info), and a symbol is a representation with meaning (not the same as the sensory register's visual image).

Sensory registers have a virtually unlimited capacity in terms of the amount of sensory information they can hold at a given moment (they take in all the sensory input available). However, the information in them disappears quite rapidly (usually in less than a second for visual and even faster for some other senses) because they are just a very brief storage for initial sensory input.

Answer:

A. receive sensory information from the external world

Question 13