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Question 1

tabula rasa

Answer 1

we’re born blank slates

Question 2

anterograde amnesia

Answer 2

an inability to form new memories due to injury or illness. can recall the past, but can’t make new memories.

Question 3

retrograde amnesia

Answer 3

an inability to retrieve information from one’s past due to injury or illness

Question 4

encoding failure

Answer 4

Much of what we sense we never notice, and what we fail to encode, we will never remember.

Question 5

storage failure

Answer 5

Storage decay: Hermann Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve:

He found that memory for novel information fades quickly, then
levels out.

Question 6

retrieval failure

Answer 6

Often, forgetting is not memories faded but memories unretrieved.

Question 7

alzheimers disease

Answer 7

a progressive neurocognitive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away (degenerate) and die. It’s the most common cause of dementia — a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills that disrupts a person’s ability to function independently.