Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that
A. long-term memory can operate normally while short-term memory is impaired.
B. impairment of one memory system (long-term or short-term) necessarily leads to deficits in the functioning of the other.
C. a double dissociation exists for short-term and long-term memory.
D. short-term memory can operate normally while long-term memory is impaired.
Answer: D
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a. fixated b. cued c. rightmost d. topmost
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