True/False (answer A for True or B for False- Questions 18-22) 18. A person with

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True/False (answer A for True or B for False- Questions 18-22) 18. A person with retrograde amnesia will not remember things in the distant past 19. If you are speaking with a person with anterograde amnesia, leave him and come back in five minutes, he will re- member what you were speaking about before you left. 20. An example of motor memory is your reaction when you hear a rattlesnake. 21. Rehearsing or repetition enhances memory. 22. A disturbance of posture, muscle tremors at rest, and uncontrolled muscle contraction (which might be seen in Parkinsons disase) are all symptoms of damage to the basal nuclei.

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18. A person with retrograde amnesia will not remember things in the distant past. - True because the retrograde amnesia is related to the long term memory loss due to trauma or injury but the subject can memorise new events in post injury period.

19. If you are speaking with a person with anterograde amnesia, leave him and come back in five minutes, he will remember what you were speaking about before you left. - False because anterograde amnesia is related with the short term memory loss.

20. An example of motor memory is your reaction when you hear a rattlesnake. -  False because in such memory sense organ ear is involved and there is a consciousness. A good example of motor memory is typing on a keyboard.

21. Rehearsing or repetition enhances memory. -  True because it can shift the event from short term to the long term memory.

22. A disturbance of posture, muscle tremors at rest and uncontrolled muscle contraction (which might to be seen in Parkinsons disease) are all symptoms of the damage of basal nuclei. - True because the basal nuclei controls the voluntary muscle contraction.

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