If you are unable to remember the name of your second grade teacher because you haven't thought of her in awhile, you are demonstrating

a. the serial position effect.
b. transience.
c. misattribution.
d. absent-mindedness.
e. encoding specificity.


b. transience.

Psychology

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Minerva is a 52-year-old mother of three. She has not worked in some years, and now has started volunteering at her church to assist with Sunday school classes. The children love her, she enjoys helping them find their spiritual path, and tells her husband that she wants to apply for a job at the church. Erikson would say that Minerva is working on achieving a sense of ____

a. conscientiousness b. integrity c. egocentrism d. generativity

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The psychodynamic approach to therapy generally involves exploring _____ to develop insight into an individual's psychological problems.

A) transference B) childhood events C) adulthood events D) the power of positive thinking

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A) Stage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 3 D) Stage 4

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