A patient who loses the ability to copy a drawing of an object, but can draw that object from memory, is demonstrating _____.
A) prosopagnosia
B) visuospatial agnosia
C) associative agnosia
D) visual form agnosia

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This is a symptom of visual form agnosia, where the individual cannot recognize or copy visual forms but can still retrieve them from memory. Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces, visuospatial agnosia is the inability to recognize spatial relationships, and associative agnosia is the inability to recognize objects despite being able to perceive their sensory features.

A Patient Who Loses the Ability to Copy a Drawing