The Inability to Assimilate or Retain New Knowledge Is Known

question 29

Multiple Choice

The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as

• A) anterograde amnesia.
• B) retrograde amnesia.
• C) the primacy effect.
• D) the serial effect.

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