A Person with Anterograde Amnesia

question 88

Multiple Choice

A person with anterograde amnesia

• A) has difficulty forming memories of things that happened after the brain damage.
• B) has difficulty on implicit memory tasks, rather than explicit memory tasks.
• C) has relatively weak long-term memory, compared to working memory.
• D) is likely to retain expertise in one specific area of knowledge.

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Definitions:

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DSM-5

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