Sensory Memory Analysis

When I was younger I would walk to school every day and I would walk pass this brick house that stood on the corner by its self with three green steps leading to a white door. For some reason that house always looked familiar to me and I always had a bad feeling about this house but I have never known why, until one day my dad picked me up from school and we walked passed that same house and I asked my dad why does that house look so familiar? He told me that I was born and raised in that house until I was ten years old. He told me that two guys broke into that house and tried to rob our house while everyone was sleep. My dad was just getting off of work when he caught one of the robbers and the other jumped out of the window. My dad told me

The three different types of memories are Sensory Memories, Short-Term Memory and Long –Term Memory.
Sensory memory is the initial, momentary storage of information lasting only an instant. Basically it’s only takes one second to smell something, touch something, hear sounds and see something familiar to trigger a sensory memory. Sensory memory can store information for only a very short time. My personal experience with sensory memory is when I hear Kirk Franklin’s song “I Smile” I instantly thinking of my big brother. I first heard that song five years ago at my brother’s funeral. Since then every time I heard that song I think of my brother.
Short-Term memory is the memory store in which information first has meaning; although the maximum length of retention there is relatively short (Hamilton & Martin, 2007). Most psychologists believe that Short-Term memory is memory that holds information for fifteen to twenty five seconds unless stored to become a long term memory. Short- Term memory can be stored in chunks. For example if you see a bunch of numbers like this (4438040829) most likely it’s going to be difficult to remember a random bunch of numbers. But if you see the same group of numbers chopped up into chunks like this (443-804-0829) there is a greater chance of remembering the numbers because they are in groups and of threes and fours. This is how I remember my cell phone