The Main Goal of the Jesuits Was

question 45

Multiple Choice

The main goal of the Jesuits was

• A) to seek out and destroy texts listed on the Index of forbidden books.
• B) to educate people so they could bring souls into or back into the Catholic church through education.
• C) to help bring sinners to justice during the Inquisition.
• D) to educate the world as to the major differences between Catholics and Protestants.
• E) to assist Ignatius of Loyola in obtaining papal permission to found their new religious order.

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Definitions:

Serial-position Effect

A memory phenomenon in which recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position in a study list, with better recall of items at the beginning and end.

Encoding Specificity

The theory that memory is enhanced when information available at encoding is also available at retrieval.

Interference Theory

The view that we may forget stored material because other learning interferes with it.