A person's loss of the ability to recall or recognise something which they have previously learned.
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Define 'memory'
The process by which people retain information about events which have happened in the past.
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What is the short-term memory?
Memory for immediate events. Information in the STM disappears unless they are rehearsed and have a limited capacity. The STM is also referred to as 'the working memory' and is coded accoustically.
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What is the Long-term memory?
Memory for events which happened in the past. The LTM has an unlimited duration and is coded semantically.
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What is Encoding?
Transforming information arriving into the memory system
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Define 'memory'
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The process by which people retain information about events which have happened in the past.
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