The answer is A. Blackout is most likely to happen when drinking quickly.
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EXPLANATION
Blackout can happen if someone drinks alcohol quickly. When a blackout happens, a person will experience a rapid increase in blood alcohol (BAC) levels. Sometimes, this is also known as alcohol-induced amnesia. This rapid increase in BAC is often caused by binge drinking, which is drinking alcohol quickly. Blackout can make a person experiences problem with forming memories. Â
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If a person’s BAC reaches 0,14 percent, which is almost twice the legal limit, then a person can experience a blackout. Alcohol interferes with the transfer of information inside the brain, so people can forget what they experience. In the normal setting, memories are formed by transferring sensory input into short-term memory through a process called encoding. Then the information is brought to long-term memory storage. Alcohol interferes the process of encoding and retrieval between long-term memory storage and short-term memory storage.
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There are two kinds of alcohol-caused blackouts: partial and complete blackout.
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1. Complete (en block) Â
Complete blackout means that a person experiences total memory loss. The memory processing will return after the body’s BAC lowers.
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2. Partial (fragmentary)
Partial blackout means that a person can’t immediately remember what happened during the blackout, but certain stimulus can trigger the memories to return.
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Keyword: blackout, alcohol, binge-drinking, kinds of blackouts, cause of blackouts Â
Subject: Social Studies
Class: 10-12
Subchapter: Blackout