Studies with Amnesia Patients Who Have Sustained Brain Damage Similar

question 154

Multiple Choice

Studies with amnesia patients who have sustained brain damage similar to that of the patient known for years as H. M. have shown that:

• A)H. M. was highly unusual in his ability to form new episodic memories.
• B)implicit and explicit memory processes seem to involve different brain areas.
• C)H. M. was highly unusual in his ability to form new procedural memories.
• D)implicit and explicit memory processes seem to involve the same brain areas.

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach that focuses on exploring unconscious desires and conflicts as a means of understanding and resolving psychological disturbances.

Repression

A defense mechanism in which distressing thoughts and memories are unconsciously forced from the conscious mind to the unconscious.

Therapy

The treatment of psychological or emotional disorders and difficulties through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight into problems.

Transference

A psychoanalytic concept where emotions and desires originally associated with one person are unconsciously redirected onto another.