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memory of life events

memory for facts

memory for skills

a type of forgetting where information is forgotten because it gets confused with other information

a piece of information which helps a memory to be retrieved

an area of the brain essential to encoding new long term memories

a cognitive process that requires effort ad attention

taking new information into memory; an input process

the process of maintaining information in memory over time, avoiding forgetting or distortions

accessing stored information and bringing it back to mind when needed