Phishing Is an Email-Based or IM Scam Designed to Persuade

question 32

True/False

Phishing is an email-based or IM scam designed to persuade you to reveal confidential information.

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory

A temporary storage system in the brain for holding a small amount of information readily available for a short period of time.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that retains information for a very brief period, often described as the afterimage left by a visual stimulus.

Primacy Effect

A cognitive bias that results in the enhanced recall of items or information presented at the beginning of a list or sequence.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented information best when recalling a list of items.