Some People with Severe Amnesia Can Learn How to Do

question 24

Multiple Choice

Some people with severe amnesia can learn how to do something despite having no conscious recall of learning their new skill.This best illustrates the need to distinguish between

• A)proactive interference and retroactive interference.
• B)encoding failure and storage decay.
• C)infantile amnesia and source amnesia.
• D)explicit memory and implicit memory.

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