Mr.Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf several times a week on a particular course.Yet the more he plays the course,the more his game improves.His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between
A) short-term memory and long-term memory.
B) massed practice and distributed practice.
C) explicit memory and implicit memory.
D) recognition and recall.

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Mr. Nydam's experience suggests that he has implicit memory for golf, meaning that he is able to improve his game through repeated practice without conscious awareness of the memory. This is in contrast to explicit memory, which is conscious and intentional memory for information. The other options (short-term vs. long-term memory, massed vs. distributed practice, and recognition vs. recall) do not fully capture the unique nature of Mr. Nydam's memory experience.

MrNydam Suffers Amnesia and Is Unable to Remember Playing Golf