Memories of Personally Experienced Events and the Contexts in Which

question 75

Multiple Choice

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called:

• A) procedural memories.
• B) episodic memories.
• C) short-term memories.
• D) semantic memories.

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Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

A condition in which people lose the ability to access memories they had before a brain injury.

New Memories

Information or experiences that have been recently encoded into an individual's memory system.

Anterograde Amnesia

A condition in which people lose the ability to form new memories after experiencing a brain injury.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory for events that occurred before a certain point in time, often due to brain injury or diseases.