Which of the following skills would an amnesia patient be the most likely to learn?

a. learning a new telephone number or new address
b. remembering the names of three new people to which they were just introduced
c. solving a complex puzzle in a normal amount of time
d. relating current events that were read in the morning newspaper


ANSWER: c

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