Question

Maria was raised as a Catholic, but she has not been attending church regularly since she moved out of her parents' home into her own apartment. However, when she does attend mass, she remembers the sequence of events and what she must do (e.g., sit, kneel, stand, which prayer to say, etc.). Her memory of how an action sequence should occur is known as a(n)

Answer 1

Script

Step-by-step explanation:

Script, in Psychology, is a form of general memory that seem like a template of a pre-existing knowledge of typical activities that follows a sequence. We use script to recall information of actions that occur in sequence in events that seem like a routine.

For example, Maria, rough script memory, was able to recall the sequence of events and what she must do when she attended mass which was like a routine event. Her ability to build accounts of these sequence of events was due to script memory.

Answer 2

Script memory

Step-by-step explanation:

In psychology, the term script memory refers to the general memory that allows us to remember the sequence of activities that take place in a daily basis or as a routine. It is created when we do something repeatedly.

In this example Maria was raised as a Catholic but she has not been attending church regularly since she moved out of her parents'. However, when she attends mass she still remembers the sequence of events and what she must do. We see that she still remembers the sequence of activities that take place in mass given that she went to mass for so many years, thus this is known as script memory.