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You set out from your living room to go down to the basement to get something. When you get to the basement, you forget what you have walked down there to get. What kind of action slip is this?
 
  a) description error
   b) associative activation error
   c) capture error
   d) loss of activation error

Question 2

Greg always drinks iced tea with lemon and he always puts one packet of Splenda in it. One late night at Denny's he orders another type of brown beverage  a Diet Coke.
 
  The server delivers it, complete with a lemon wedge. Greg grabs a packet of Splenda and dumps it in the Diet Coke. This action slip would be
   classified as a:
   a) loss of activation error.
   b) data driven error.
   c) capture error.
   d) description error.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c





 

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