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Suppose that you hear about a man who has retrograde amnesia. What kind of memory task will he find most difficult?
 
  task will he find most difficult?
   a. working-memory tasks
   b. remembering events that happened before his brain injury
   c. remembering visual information about events that happened after his brain injury
   d. remembering verbal information about events that happened after his brain injury

Question 2

According to the research on implicit memory and explicit memory,
 
  a. people with amnesia typically perform better on explicit memory tasks than on implicit memory tasks.
  b. when the tests are conducted properly, most people with normal memory reveal very little implicit memory.
  c. on implicit memory tasks, people recall much more when they have used deep levels of processing, rather than shallow levels.
  d. psychologists sometimes discover a dissociation; for example, a variable may have a large effect on an explicit task, but a small effect on an implicit task.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d



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