Which of the Following Individuals Is Suffering from Retrograde Amnesia

question 84

Multiple Choice

Which of the following individuals is suffering from retrograde amnesia?

• A) Eva;after waking up from a coma,Eva cannot recall why she is in the hospital or her family members' names.
• B) Adam;after recovering from a concussion,Adam cannot encode or store any new information with which he is presented.
• C) Amy;while attending her psychology class,Amy cannot remember lecture materials well because the material from her previous sociology class keeps showing up in her mind.
• D) Michael;while reviewing what he learned in class one day,Michael is unable to recall information he learned from chemistry class in the morning because he keeps thinking about material covered in math class in the afternoon.

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Definitions:

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, indicating the central point of a data distribution.

Standard Normal

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as the basis for z-scores in statistics.

Standard Deviation

A metric that calculates how much a dataset's values spread out or diverge from their average.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a type of continuous probability distribution where data points are symmetrically distributed around the mean, forming a bell-shaped curve.