Dimetri is in a car acciendent in which he loses consciousness after hitting his head on the steering wheel. When he awakens, he cannot remember leaving his house, getting in his car, or any of the events leading up to the accident
He is diagnoised with a mild case of _________________ amnesia at the hospital.
FIll in the blank with correct word.
Answer: retrograde
Rationale: Retrograde amnesia is a condition in which memory for the events preceding trauma or injury is lost. Anterograde amnesia is the opposite effect—the inability to form new memories for events occurring after a brain injury.
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When people use the ____________________ to estimate probabilities for events, they base their estimates on the similarity between the event in question and a prototype
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The tasks used to test Short-Term Memory (STM)
a. do not require simultaneously arriving information. b. do not present a perceptual overload. c. do not present the information so briefly as to make perception of them difficult. d. All of these
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