The definition of maladroit is  awkward or showing a lack of skills. An example of a maladroit person is an employee who cannot accomplish the simplest tasks of the job. noun Maladroit is defined as a person with a lack of skills.
Even within Working Memory (the next step after Sensory Memory), the verbal/non-verbal information is processed separately. Verbal input is attended to and processed in your brain's phonological loop. Visual input is attended to and processed on your brain's visuospatial sketchpad. From these two different locations, the information is encoded (transferred) to long-term memory.
Iconic Memory. Sensory memory actually refers to memories of all senses while iconic memory relates to the memory of sight only. Various experiments have shown that once an image is viewed, the brain scarcely has time to process it and the visual memory is stored for less than half a second.