2.5

• Maintenance rehearsal: is the process of repeating information to keep it in short-term memory
• elaborative rehearsal: linking new information with existing memory and knowledge
• autobiographical memory: a person's memory for episodes or experiences that occurred in their own life
• retrograde amnesia: the inability to remember information previously stored in memory
• anterograde amnesia: the inability to form memories from new material
• infantile amnesia: the inability of adults to recollect early episodic memory
• Alzheimer's disease: degenerative disease in which memory loss is progressive and plaques accumulate in nervous tissue