Briefly describe the two types of amnesia

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Anterograde amnesia is the inability to consciously remember information after brain damage. Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember information that occurred before brain damage.

Psychology

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Studies that are completely conducted but never published and that might change the conclusions in a research synthesis are referred to as the ____ problem

a. post production b. file drawer c. publish or perish d. researcher bias

Psychology

The defining feature of consciousness that separates it from unconsciousness is:

A) experience. B) activation-synthesis. C) forebrain activity. D) wakefulness.

Psychology

You would not want to look just for confirming evidence (recall the principle of falsifiability from Chapter 2); you would want to look also for evidence of female promiscuity and male monogamy among humans and other species,

and changes in human sexual customs in response to changing social conditions. What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The process in which opposing facts are weighed and compared to determine the best solution is called:

a. contextual intelligence. b. factor analysis. c. dialectical reasoning. d. justification of effort.

Psychology