The senses are bombarded by stimuli that must be sorted and arranged into meaningful patterns that can be remembered.
Information is received through and briefly held in the senses.
This information is quickly lost if not attended to. Attention is a mentally demanding process that chooses between relevant and irrelevant information. The short-term memory organizes relevant information into patterns. It has limited storage capacity, about seven chunks of information, give or take a couple of chunks. The picture and caption present verbal and non-verbal information simultaneously.