You Have Put Your Last Quarter in a Vending Machine

question 341

Multiple Choice

You have put your last quarter in a vending machine and pressing the button has had no effect, so you press the buttons more vigorously and then try all the other buttons. If none of these strategies work, your next response may be to kick the machine, which would be classified as which type of response?

• A)displacement
• B)aggression
• C)persistence
• D)assertiveness

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

A situation where earlier memories hinder the ability to remember more recent memories.

Parallel-Distributed Processing

A model of information processing in which data is processed simultaneously by multiple pathways or networks, resembling the processing that occurs in the human brain.

Personally Relevant

Pertaining to or having a direct significance or importance to an individual's own life or interests.

Retrieval

The act of making stored memory information conscious and accessible.