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When High-Stakes Pressure Causes Complete Memory Failure

I studied for the bar exam for eight months and the morning of the test my mind went completely blank and I couldn't remember anything I learned.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Extreme stress can sever the pathways between stored knowledge and conscious recall precisely when access is most needed.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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