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What is amnesia?
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Memory loss, often through accident, disease or injury.
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Anterograde Amnesia
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A memory condition that means new long-term memories cannot be made.
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Retrograde Amnesia
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A memory condition that affects recall of memories prior to an injury to the brain.
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What happened to Henry Molaison?
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He had brain surgery and his hippocampus was damaged which caused him to have retrograde and anterograde amnesia.
GCSE Psychology
flashcards
Decks in class (17)
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Early Brain Development14
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development42
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Dweck's Mindset Theory9
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Willingham's Learning Theory2
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Information Processing and MSM A01 and A0342
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Amnesia4
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Bartlett's Reconstructive Memory (1932)11
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War of the ghosts study - Bartlett (1932)18
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Peterson & Peterson (1959)20
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Unipolar Depression18
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Genetic Explanation of Unipolar Depression9
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Cognitive Theory as an explanation of depression14
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as a treatment for depression10
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Drug therapy as a treatment for depression9
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Social Influence Key Terms10
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Factors affecting bystander intervention9
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Factors affecting conformity2
