Question

Which of the following is an example of sensory memory?

Smelling your dinner cooking as you walk past the oven
Imagining the color of your childhood bicycle
Humming the melody of your favorite song
Remembering the softness of your grandmother's sweater

Answer 1

Answer: Smelling your dinner cooking as you walk past the oven.

Sensory memory is the sensory you can experience in the moment. Examples of this is feeling the soft blanket over you as you lay in a bed, or feeling the rough and jagged textures and edges of a rock as you touch it.

Remembering a memory or imagining something that conjures up your senses is not sensory memory.

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Answer 2

Smelling your dinner cooking as you walk past the oven

Explanation:

The reason is that sensory memories deal with sight, sound smell, but it only takes a second until your brain takes it into your short-term memory. Walking past the kitchen only takes a second.

Examples of Sensory memory include seeing a dog, feeling gum under a chair, or smelling chicken noodle soup. Our eyes, nose, and nerves send that information to the brain. Before memories go into short-term memory storage or long-term memory storage, they sit in sensory memory storage.