The inability to recall important personal information that cannot be accounted for by medical causes or simple forgetting is known as ______.
A) dissociative identity disorder
B) dissociative amnesia
C) depersonalization-derealization disorder
D) dissociative fugue

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The definition given describes dissociative amnesia, which involves an inability to recall important personal information that is not due to a medical condition or normal forgetting. Dissociative identity disorder involves having two or more distinct personality states, depersonalization-derealization disorder involves feeling detached from one's own body or surroundings, and dissociative fugue involves sudden travel away from home or work accompanied by inability to recall the past.

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