AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cerebrum. Hint: If a person gets injured in an accident, he loses his memory because of the damage to the largest part of the brain which is responsible for logical functioning and higher brain functions such as actions and emotions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amnesia refers to the loss of memories, including facts, information and experiences. Movies and television tend to depict amnesia as forgetting your identity, but that’s not generally the case in real life. Instead, people with amnesia-also called amnestic syndrome-usually know who they are.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overall, amnesia is caused by damage to your brain. This affects memory-making parts of your brain, such as the thalamus. Anterograde amnesia tends to occur after you start experiencing some symptoms of the disease, such as short-term memory loss.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anterograde amnesia is the most common. It is the loss of ability to form memories for a period of time after the accident, leading the individual not to “remember” a period of time after the traumatic head injury. Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memories that formed before a traumatic head injury.