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| Focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or other aspect of the environment |
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| The rention of information about the where and when of life's happenings |
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| A person's knowledge about the world- including one's fields of expertise, general academic knowledge of the sort learned in school, and "everyday knowledge" |
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| Memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state |
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| Memory without conscious recollections, incolces skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed. |
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| The ability to remember where one learned something |
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| Remembering to do something in the future |
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| Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits excellent judgment about important matters. |
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| Tip of the Tongue Phenomenom |
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| In which individuals are confident that they can remember something but just cant quite seem to retrieve it from memory. |
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| A mood disorder in which the individual is deeply unhappy, demoralized, self-derogatory, and bored. The person does not feel well, loses stamina easily, has poor appetite, and is listless and unmotivated. This is so widespread that it has been called the "common cold" of mental disorders |
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| A global term for any neurological disorder in which the primary symptoms involve a deterioration of mental functioning |
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| A progressive, irreversible brain disorder characterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and eventually, physical function |
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| A chronic, progressive disease characterized by muscle tremors, slowing of movement, and partial facial paralysis |
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