Overlearning Is the Process of Practicing a Skill

question 71

Multiple Choice

Overlearning is the process of practicing a skill

• A) for too long, such that retroactive inhibition develops.
• B) for too long, such that proactive inhibition develops.
• C) past the point of mastery.
• D) similar to one previously learned, so that positive transfer is realized.

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Definitions:

Somatic Symptom Disorder

A mental disorder in which a person has significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, that causes major emotional distress and problems functioning.

Illness Anxiety Disorders

A condition characterized by excessive worry about having or acquiring a serious illness, despite medical reassurance.

Conversion Disorders

Psychological conditions where emotional distress or unconscious conflict is expressed through physical symptoms, without a medical cause.

Korsakoff's Syndrome

A chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), often associated with alcohol misuse, characterized by memory loss and fabrication of events.