In Soap Operas, Characters Often Forget Their Past Experience Following

question 73

Multiple Choice

In soap operas, characters often forget their past experience following some trauma. They don't merely forget the traumatic event, they forget who they are, where they came from-they lose almost all memory of their lives. They then move to a new place and start a new identity. This would best be described as an instance of ________

• A) anterograde amnesia.
• B) dissociative fugue.
• C) continuous amnesia.
• D) generalized amnesia.