Glossary M

Memory loss which is also referred to as Amnesia is an abnormal degree of forgetfulness and/or inability to recall past events.

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Memory monitoring refers to the awareness of what one is doing in memory at the moment.

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Memory process is defined as the brain activity caused by the experiencing of an environmental event.

Memory self -efficacy refers to the belief in one’s ability to perform a specific memory task.

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Memory span refers to a general measure of the amount of information that can be held in the short-term store.

Memory strategies. Please see Mnemonics.

Memory system is a kind of memory, such as Episodic memory, Semantic memory that operates on distinct principles and stores a distinct kind of information.

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Memory task refers to any task designed to test or assess memory.

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