| A | B |
| Explicit Memory | Memory that involves consciously learned words, data and concepts. |
| Implicit Memory | Unconscious or automatic memory |
| Control Processes | Regulates the analysis and flow of information. |
| Priming | Using an event or clue to make it easier to remember another one. |
| Dementia | Irreversible loss of intellectual functioning caused by organic brain damage. |
| Alzheimer's disease | The most common form of dementia |
| Multi-infarct dementia | Form of dementia characterized by sporadic and progressive loss of intellectual functioning. |
| Subcortical dementia | Dementia like Parkinson's, Huntington's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis |
| Parkinson's Disease | A chronic progressive disease with muscle tremors |
| Life review | Examination of one's own past life |
| Wisdom | A reflection of timeless truth rather than immediate expediency |
| Working Memory | Another name for Short Term Memory |