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GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 30

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Memory and Forgetting: Encoding, storage, retrieval, information processing theories, reconstructive memory, encoding failure, interference and trace decay · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Iconic memory is a type of __________________.

  1. short term memory
  2. sensory memory
  3. semantic memory
  4. working memory

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Correct answer: (B) sensory memory

Explanation

Iconic memory is the very brief visual sensory store. The auditory one is echoic memory.