Psychology GCSE
Symptoms of anterograde amnesia
What Symptoms of anterograde amnesia means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Symptoms of anterograde amnesia
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A failure to retain new information, so the person cannot remember recent events or people they have just met, although older past memories remain intact.
Topics that use Symptoms of anterograde amnesia
- Memory (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anterograde amnesia
- Capacity
- Duration
- Encoding
- Information processing
- Long-term memory
- Reconstructive memory
- Retrieval
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