Question

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that, in the latter case, _____________ .

Answer 1

the echo faded before being stored in short-term memory

Step-by-step explanation:

The short-term memory is one of the major parts in the "information processing model of memory" and is considered as one of the types of the memory through which a piece of information through in an individual's mind.

At first, a piece of particular information comes from external stimuli and being processed in the sensory memory and after that, it travels to the short-term memory and at the end entered in the long-term memory.

In short-term memory, a piece of information lasts for about a few seconds after that it gets vanished if kept un-rehearsed.

In reference to the question, the given statement represents the delayed recall due to which the memory fades away before getting stored in the short-term memory.