Before Reading This Question, You Were Not Thinking About the Name

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Multiple Choice

Before reading this question, you were not thinking about the name of the first president of the United States. In terms of Freud's theory of personality, the name was stored at the _____ level of awareness. However, once the question brings the name to your mind, the name is at the _____ level of awareness.

• A) unconscious; conscious
• B) unconscious; preconscious
• C) preconscious; conscious
• D) latent; preconscious

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Definitions:

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2-7 years exhibit symbolic thinking but lack the ability for logical operations.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development during which children gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Decentered

In developmental psychology, a term referring to the ability to take multiple aspects of a situation into account, seeing things from more than one perspective.

Memory Strategy

Techniques used to enhance memory retention, recall, or the encoding of information.