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Crystal is involved in a serious snowmobile accident. Immediately after the accident, she cannot remember the four days prior to the injury. As she recovers, she eventually remembers everything except the actual snowmobile ride that resulted in the injury. What condition did Crystal have?
 
  a. anterograde amnesia
  b. infantile amnesia
  c. retrograde amnesia
  d. age amnesia

Question 2

Jerzy suffers brain damage after falling off his bed. Now, whenever someone tells him something, Jerzy remembers it only briefly. He still believes he is eight, the age he was when he fell off the bed, even though years have passed. Jerzy's condition, anterograde amnesia, demonstrates that sometimes information can fail to be transferred from ____ memory to ____ memory.
 
  a. episodic; procedural
  b. short-term; long-term
  c. preliminary; consolidated
  d. sensory; working



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
c

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
b



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