Two months ago, Jack moved and he had difficulty remembering his new telephone number. His old telephone number kept "popping into mind." Last week, Jack was involved in a serious fall that caused head trauma
Although he was seriously injured, he has no memory of the fall. What types of memory problems are illustrated by these two examples?
a) Both involve retrograde amnesia.
b) Both involve proactive interference.
c) The telephone problem involves interference; the fall involves retrograde amnesia.
d) The telephone problem involves anterograde amnesia; the fall involves retrograde amnesia.
ANS: c
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