GATE 2021 XH5 – Question 37

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Memory and Forgetting: Encoding, storage, retrieval, information processing theories, reconstructive memory, encoding failure, interference and trace decay · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Loss of memory for events that occurred before a trauma is called

Retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Infantile amnesia
Posthypnotic amnesia

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Correct answer: (A) Retrograde amnesia

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Retrograde means backward in time: previously acquired memories become inaccessible, A. Anterograde amnesia instead impairs formation of new memories after the injury. Infantile amnesia and posthypnotic amnesia refer to different periods or circumstances.

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