People with Prefrontal Cortex Damage, Including Patients with Korsakoff's Syndrome

question 90

Multiple Choice

People with prefrontal cortex damage, including patients with Korsakoff's syndrome, frequently display which of the following memory problems?

• A) severe retrograde amnesia but normal ability to learn new information
• B) confabulation--a tendency to answer with out-of-date information
• C) severe loss of implicit memories
• D) normal memory about personal affairs but severely impaired memory about the outside world

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Definitions:

Law of Effect

A psychological principle stating that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are likely to be repeated, while those followed by negative outcomes are less likely to be repeated.

Skinner

B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist and behaviorist, well-known for his work in operant conditioning and behavior analysis.

Pavlov

A psychologist known for his work on classical conditioning, demonstrating how stimuli can trigger conditioned responses.

Potential Behavior

The range of actions or conduct that an organism is capable of performing, given the right circumstances or triggers.