Vigilance Tasks Involve the Long-Term Maintenance of Alertness in Situations

question 11

True/False

Vigilance tasks involve the long-term maintenance of alertness in situations in which signals that must be responded to occur infrequently and irregularly.

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Definitions:

Conscience

A component of the superego that contains behaviors for which the child has been punished.

Primary-process Thought

A Freudian concept involving primitive, instinctual thought patterns that are illogical and driven by the unconscious mind.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.

Sexual Longings

Intense desires or yearnings for sexual intimacy and connection.