Erin, who has korsakoff's amnesia, is asked to perform in a memory experiment. erin is likely to

Erin is likely to be capable of learning but do poorly in explicit tests of memory.

Korsakoff's amnesia, which got its name from Sergei Korsakoff, who first researched it, is a type of amnesia caused by the lack of thiamine (vitamin B 1) in the brain. As a result, various types of amnesia can occur, as well as apathy, confabulation, and difficulties with performing learned knowledge, as is the case with Erin above.