Cultures in Which Individuals Are Encouraged to Put Time and Energy

question 155

Multiple Choice

Cultures in which individuals are encouraged to put time and energy into projects that will benefit only themselves are best described as:

• A) primitive
• B) collectivistic
• C) individualistic
• D) idealistic

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Definitions:

Brown-Peterson Task

A cognitive exercise used to assess short-term memory and attention span by having individuals try to remember trigrams or three-letter combinations after various distractions and intervals.

Short-Term Memory

The component of the memory system that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing for a brief period of time.

Decay

A hypothesized process of forgetting in which material is thought to erode, break apart, or otherwise disintegrate or fade.

Echoic Memory

A type of sensory memory that retains audio information for a short period after the original sound has ceased.