Question

A children’s flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions. If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey. However, if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running. This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in ____________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Sensory memory

Explanation:

A children’s flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions. If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey. However, if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running. This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in sensory memory .sensory memory is the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended. If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of mickey but if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running. Hence, the ability to look at something and remember what it looked like with just a second of observation is example of sensory memory