GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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repression.
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retroactive interference.
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encoding failure.
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source amnesia.
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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: -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-4: -The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve: source amnesia.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following brain structures is central to remembering how to perform well-learned skills? amygdala.