Long-term memory
What Long-term memory means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The store that prolonged rehearsal transfers information to, with an unlimited capacity and a duration of up to a lifetime.
A memory store with a theoretically unlimited capacity and a duration that can last a lifetime.
Topics that use Long-term memory
- Memory (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anterograde amnesia
- Capacity
- Duration
- Encoding
- Information processing
- Reconstructive memory
- Retrieval
- Retrograde amnesia
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