Pat can only remember the events up to the time of his serious brain infection. He can't recall anything that has happened since. If he is given a word to remember, then gets distracted for a few seconds, he can't remember the word. He forgets what he had for dinner minutes afterward. Pat's problem is:
a. anterograde amnesia
b. retrograde amnesia
c. flashbulb memory
d. cue-dependent forgetting
A
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You meet a researcher who says they are studying how the hippocampus, a part of the brain in the temporal lobe, is involved in memory for events. This researcher is most likely a
A. cognitive neuroscientist. B. behaviorist. C. functionalist. D. psychoanalyst.
One reason to use the term personality is to suggest that a person's behavior is caused by internal forces
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
As opposed to clinical practitioners, who search for individualistic understanding of human behavior. clinical researchers search for general truths about abnormality. The approach of clinical researchers is:
A. idiosyncratic B. nomosynthetic C. nomothetic D. idiographic
Every time Alex gets nervous, she ends up sucking her thumb and feels better. Alex is using which defense mechanism?
A. self-harm B. sublimation C. projection D. regression