Psychologists Have Proposed Five Mechanisms to Account for Forgetting

question 28

Multiple Choice

Psychologists have proposed five mechanisms to account for forgetting:

• A)decay,replacement,interference,transference,and repression.
• B)decay,replacement,interference,cue-dependent forgetting,and repression .
• C)decay,transference,interference,cue-dependent forgetting,and repression.
• D)decay,replacement,sector failure,cue-dependent forgetting,and repression

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Definitions:

Self-enhancement

The desire to maintain, increase, or protect one's positive self-view.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal characteristics and underestimate the influence of situational factors when explaining other people's behavior.

Pessimistic Explanatory

A tendency to explain negative events as being widespread, permanent, and uncontrollable.

Martin Seligman

A psychologist known for his work on positive psychology, learned helplessness, and for promoting concepts such as PERMA to characterize well-being.