CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Andrew suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between
A
proactive interference and retroactive interference
B
recognition and recall
C
explicit and implicit memory
D
short-term memory and long-term memory
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nydam suffers from amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. But the longer he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the difference in: explicit memory and implicit memory.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Anterograde Amnesia: Describes amnesia where you can’t form new memories after the event that caused the amnesia. Anterograde amnesia is far more common than retrograde.

Detailed explanation-4: -Declarative memory is the kind of memory impaired in amnesia, and it refers to the capacity to remember the facts and events of everyday life. It is the kind of memory that is meant when the term “memory” is used in ordinary language. Declarative memory can be brought to mind as a conscious recollection.

Detailed explanation-5: -Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) is a state of confusion that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury in which the injured person is disoriented and unable to remember events that occur after the injury.

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