When You Took Your Introductory Psychology Course, You Likely Learned

question 18

Multiple Choice

When you took your introductory psychology course, you likely learned a little bit about many different areas of psychology. However, as you began taking other psychology courses, you likely found that your professors would elaborate on information you already learned in your introductory psychology course. Essentially, you were adding new information onto existing information that you already knew. This is an example of your _____.

• A) Working memory
• B) Long-term memory
• C) Short-term memory
• D) Procedural memory

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Definitions:

World of Being

In Plato’s metaphysics, the world of ideal Forms, a world that is unchanging, a world we can know only through reason.

Berkeley

Represents George Berkeley, an 18th-century philosopher known for his theory of immaterialism, arguing that material objects exist only in the mind and through perception.

Esse Est Percipi

A Latin phrase meaning "to be is to be perceived," associated with George Berkeley's idealist philosophy which argues that objects only exist to the extent that they are perceived.

Subjective Idealism

The view that nothing exists except ideas and minds. The eighteenth-century idealist George Berkeley held the extreme position of subjective idealism, which, simply summarized, insisted that “to be is to be perceived” (esse est percipi). According to Berkeley, it makes no sense to believe in the existence of anything that we cannot experience.