Whereas amnesiacs make errors of omission---there are gaps in their
recollections they find impossible to fill---confabulators make errors
of commission: they make things up. Rather than forgetting, they are
inventing. Confabulating patients are nearly always oblivious to their
own condition, and will earnestly give absurdly implausible explanations
of why they're in hospital, or talking to a doctor. One patient, asked
about his surgical scar, explained that during the Second World War he
surprised a teenage girl who shot him three times in the head, killing
him, only for surgery to bring him back to life. The same patient, when
asked about his family, described how at various times they had died in
his arms, or had been killed before his eyes. Others tell yet more
fantastical tales, about trips to the moon, fighting alongside Alexander
in India or seeing Jesus on the Cross. Confabulators aren't out to
deceive. They engage in what Morris Moscovitch, a neuropsychologist,
calls 'honest lying'. Uncertain, and obscurely distressed by their
uncertainty, they are seized by a 'compulsion to narrate': a
deep-seated need to shape, order and explain what they do not
understand.
1. Which **TWO** of the following statements about people suffering from confabulation are true?
请选择 2 个答案
A. They have lost cognitive abilities.
B. They do not deliberately tell a lie.
C. They are normally aware of their condition.
D. They do not have the impetus to explain what they do not understand.
E. They try to make up stories.
2. Which **TWO** of the following statements about playwrights and novelists are true?
请选择 2 个答案
A. They give more meaning to the stories.
B. They tell lies for the benefit of themselves.
C. They have nothing to do with the truth out there.