Psychology GCSE
Retrograde amnesia
What Retrograde amnesia means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Retrograde amnesia
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The inability to recall memories formed before the onset of brain damage, such as forgetting past events or people known prior to the injury.
Topics that use Retrograde amnesia
- Memory (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anterograde amnesia
- Capacity
- Duration
- Encoding
- Information processing
- Long-term memory
- Reconstructive memory
- Retrieval
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