While Interviewing Your Patient,she Tells You That Her Husband Will

question 1

Multiple Choice

While interviewing your patient,she tells you that her husband will be back from the store shortly and can get you a list of her medications.Her daughter tells you that the patient's husband died 15 years ago.This situation is known as:

• A) hallucination.
• B) imagination.
• C) contemplation.
• D) confabulation.

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Definitions:

STM

Stands for Short-Term Memory, which is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

LTM

Stands for Long-Term Memory, which is the capability of the brain to store, preserve, and recall information over extended periods of time.

Sperling's Experiments

Studies conducted by George Sperling that investigated the capacity and duration of visual sensory memory.

Sensory Registers

Memory systems that temporarily hold incoming sensory information from the environment until it can be processed.