PSYC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 34: Limbic System, Anterograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation
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We don"t expect sensory memories and short-term memories to last for long. Most forgetting tends to occur right after memorization. Famously tested his own memory at various intervals after learning. To be sure he would not be swayed by prior learning, he memorized nonsense syllables (meaningless 3 letter words). e. g. - cef, wol, gex. By waiting various lengths of time before testing himself, ebbinghaus plotted a curve of forgetting. (graph on pg. The graph shows the amount of information remembered after varying lengths of time. Notice that forgetting is rapid at rst and then is followed by a slow decline. The same applies to meaningful information, but the forgetting curve is stretched over a longer time. As you would expect recent event"s are recalled more accurately than those from the remote past. You may not remember much for very long, and you will not be able to take in enough either.
