H.M., the famous anterograde amnesic, would likely __________
a. show normal learning curves on problem-solving tasks
b. have profound retrograde amnesia
c. be unable to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem
d. show normal free recall performance in a word problem task
Answer: a
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