Question

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect:_______.
a. korsakoff's syndrome
b. a failure of memory consolidation
c. temporary post-traumatic stress disorder
d. neurofibrillary plaques

Answer 1

Answer:

A failure of memory consolidation

Explanation:

Consolidation is a process of stabilizing the memory after the traces. This is perhaps the part of memory encoding or storage, memory. It is also called a memory process. This procedure has been divided into two concepts

• The synaptic consolidation
• The systematic consolidation

Consolidation process initializing the process of long term potentiate.  

Thus in the above context, the brief episode of the retrograde amnesia interrupt newly formed memories. When a football player hits his head and not recall the previous play before hitting reflects the failure of memory consolidation.