Milgram Believes City Dwellers Learn to Prevent Attentional Overload by Doing

question 70

Multiple Choice

Milgram believes city dwellers learn to prevent attentional overload by doing all of the following EXCEPT

• A)reducing their territorial behavior.
• B)engaging in brief, superficial interpersonal contacts.
• C)disregarding nonessential events.
• D)fending off others by adopting cold and unfriendly expressions.

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Definitions:

Flashbulb Memories

Vivid, detailed recollections of significant or traumatic events, which are imprinted with high clarity as if taken by a camera’s flash.

Vivid

Descriptive of something strikingly bright or intense, either visually or in terms of perception, making it likely to attract attention or create a strong impression.

Emotional Areas

Regions within the brain, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, that are fundamentally involved in processing, regulating, and responding to emotional stimuli.

Autobiographical Memory

A type of memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences) and semantic (facts and concepts) memory.