Warrington & Shallice Report a Patient with a Grossly Defective

question 82

Multiple Choice

Warrington & Shallice report a patient with a grossly defective STS (a digit span of two) .This patient __________.

• A)had normal performance on the Brown-Peterson task
• B)had reasonable learning,memory,and comprehension
• C)had profound retrograde amnesia
• D)had no ability to store new long-term memories

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Definitions:

Sensitivity

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