An impairment in learning novel (new) information is most likely to be associated with…

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When evaluating an impairment in learning novel information, it helps to anchor the discussion in memory types and what each condition disrupts.
Option a) Impaired intelligence: This would imply a broad decline in cognitive capacity across many domains, not specifically a failure to form new memories. Learning new information can be difficult if someone has general intellectual decline, but the question points to a memory-specific learning deficit rather than overall intelligence, so this choice is not the best fit.
Option b) Anterograde amnesia: This condition is characterized by an inability to form new long-term memories after the onset of amnesia, while older memories may remain intact. Consequently, learning novel information is directly and prominently impaired, making this the most accurate association with the scenario described.
Option c) A procedural memory deficit: Procedural memory underlies learning of skills and habits (e.g., riding a bike, tying a shoelace). While someone with a procedural memory deficit might struggle with certain tasks, the prompt emphasizes learning new information, which is more closely tied to declarative/episodic memory. Therefore this option misses the core issue of new information encoding.
Option d) Retrograde amnesia: This involves loss of memories formed before a certain event, not a difficulty in forming new memories after the event. People with retrograde amnesia typically have trouble recalling past information but can often still learn new information, at least initially, which makes this option inconsistent with the description of learning novel information being impaired.

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