In soap operas, characters often forget their past experience following some trauma. They don't merely forget the traumatic event, they forget who they are, where they came from - they lose almost all memory of their lives

They then move to a new place and start a new identity. This would best be described as an instance of
a. anterograde amnesia.
b. dissociative fugue.
c. continuous amnesia.
d. generalized amnesia.

b. dissociative fugue.

Psychology

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Researchers have determined that the processing style of the ________ hemisphere is more ________ than the ________ hemisphere

a. left; analytical; right b. right; analytical; left c. right; specialized for language; left d. left; specialized for music; right e. left; spatially-oriented; right

Psychology

The study of memory has traditionally been dichotomized into:

A) principal and peripheral B) structure and process C) conscious and unconscious D) sensory and cognitive E) none of the above

Psychology