Psychology GCSE
Anterograde amnesia
What Anterograde amnesia means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Anterograde amnesia
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The inability to form new memories after the onset of the condition, meaning recent events or people just met cannot be remembered.
Topics that use Anterograde amnesia
- Memory (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Capacity
- Duration
- Encoding
- Information processing
- Long-term memory
- Reconstructive memory
- Retrieval
- Retrograde amnesia
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