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Accessibility

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Problems associated with retrieval

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Episodic memory

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Memory of a day or specific event

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Availability

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Problems associated with storage

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State cues

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Internal cues

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Cerebellum

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Back of the head near the spine: procedural and semantic memory

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STM

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Limited capacity + duration

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Hippocampus

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The part of the brain responsible for making new memories

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Amnesia

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The loss of memory

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Retrograde amnesia

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Loss of memory before it developed

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Anterograde amnesia

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Inability to make new memories

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Misinformation effect

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Remembering something incorrectly

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Distortion

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When you change your memory to something else

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Confabulation

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Making up details to make a more complete story

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Context cues

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External cues

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Displacement

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When the STM runs out of space, the info is displaced

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Autobiographical memory

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Memories we collect in our lifetimes

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Schema

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A mental representation of something based on a prior experience

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Faulty episodic memory

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Memories of past events that are recalled incorrectly

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Faulty semantic memory

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When your knowledge and understanding of things can be inaccurate

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Auditory cortex

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The part of the brain that processes information it receives from the ears

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Frontal lobe

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A part of the brain that is its control centre and is responsible for functions such as planning, organisation and making judgements

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Procedural memory

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Responsible for ‘motor skills’. These are things like walking and being able to feed ourselves

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Leading questions

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Questions which suggest a certain type of answer

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Overload

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the result of too much information entering a memory store

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Wechsler Memory scale

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A diagnostic tool used by psychologists to evaluate how much brain damage patients have after injury or illness

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