Brock Was Not Sure What He Wanted to Do While

question 240

Multiple Choice

Brock was not sure what he wanted to do while he was in college, so he talked to the career counsellors last year. His profile showed a strong interest in both medicine and animals, so he got a part-time job at the local humane society. He also checked the requirements for veterinary school, and he has now completed six of the courses required for the veterinary program. He is convinced that this is the ideal career for him. What identity status does this represent according to James Marcia?

• A)moratorium
• B)diffusion
• C)achievement
• D)foreclosure

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Definitions:

Encoding Failure

A situation where information does not get stored in long-term memory due to insufficient encoding during the learning phase.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder where one can recall certain information but is unable to remember where, when, or how they learned that information.

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Sensory Memory

The shortest term element of memory, it is the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.