Short-term memory amnesia was first studied by Shallice and Warrington (1970), studying a patient known by the initials, K.F. The patient showed:
a. impaired performance on digit spans.
b. impaired performance on word-stem completion.
c. impaired performance on source monitoring tasks.
d. impaired memory on levels of processing tasks.
Ans: a
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