In soap operas, characters often forget their past experience following some trauma. They don't merely forget the traumatic event, they forget who they are, where they came from-they lose almost all memory of their lives. They then move to a new place and start a new identity. This would be best described as an instance of __________.
A. anterograde amnesia
B. dissociative fugue
C. continuous amnesia
D. generalized amnesia
Answer: B
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