AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a motorcycle accident, Adam suffered a brain injury that makes it impossible for him to form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam’s memory difficulty MOST clearly illustrates: anterograde amnesia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations. Because the hippocampus plays such an important role in the formation of new memories, damage to this part of the brain can have a serious long-term impact on certain types of memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is amnesia (amnesiac syndrome)? Amnesia is a dramatic form of memory loss. If you have amnesia you may be unable to recall past information (retrograde amnesia) and/or hold onto new information (anterograde amnesia).

Detailed explanation-4: -Retrograde amnesia is loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma. People with retrograde amnesia cannot remember some or even all of their past. They have difficulty remembering episodic memories.

Detailed explanation-5: -An example of a flashbulb memory is the assassination of the US president John F. Kennedy in 1963 and recalling the moment you learned of the death of Princess Diana in 1997. Recalling where you were when you learned about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.