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Memory, information processing:
The processes involved in memory include encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
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CambridgeIGCSEPsychologyMemory and forgetting
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- The processes involved in memory include encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
- Key characteristics of a memory store are: input (the information that is processed), capacity (the maximum information it can hold), duration (how long information can be retained), and access (the ability to retrieve information).
- There are different types of memory: declarative memory, which involves facts and events that can be consciously recalled, and procedural memory, which relates to knowledge of how to perform tasks.
- Forgetting refers to the inability to recall previously learned information, which includes retrograde amnesia (loss of memory for past events) and anterograde amnesia (difficulty in remembering new information after an incident).
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