Jerry Is at a Party

question 204

Multiple Choice

Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which explanation is MOST likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

• A)Jerry failed to encode the woman's name.
• B)Jerry's working memory capacity was exceeded by the number of people he met.
• C)Jerry experienced interference in retrieving the woman's name.
• D)Jerry failed to rehearse the woman's name sufficiently.

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Definitions:

Superego

A component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, representing the moral conscience and the internalization of societal norms and principles.

Unconscious

The part of the mind that is inaccessible to conscious thought but that affects behavior and emotions, according to psychoanalytic theory.

Id

In psychoanalysis, a part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Ego

Part of the psyche that mediates between the conscious, the unconscious, and reality, operating based on the reality principle, according to Freudian theory.