AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This type of Amnesia results in a person being unable to remember anything BEFORE damage to the hippocampus ____
A
Retrograde
B
Anterograde
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Retrograde Amnesia: Describes amnesia where you can’t recall memories that were formed before the event that caused the amnesia. It usually affects recently stored past memories, not memories from years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -Retrograde amnesia is caused by damage to the memory-storage areas of the brain, in various brain regions. This type of damage can result from a traumatic injury, a serious illness, a seizure or stroke, or a degenerative brain disease.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dissociative amnesia. Dissociative amnesia is caused by stress or trauma and presents as forgetting specific events or periods of time. In some cases, dissociative amnesia could even mean forgetting most of your identity and life history.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anterograde: This kind of memory loss means you can’t form new memories. This word partly comes from the Latin word “ante, ” which means before. In this context, a person can’t store memories moving forward. Retrograde: This kind of memory loss means you lose memories from your past.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the earliest characteristics of autobiographical decline in AD is anterograde amnesia (i.e., inability to form new memories) followed by retrograde amnesia (i.e., inability to retrieve old memories).

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