PSY100H1 Chapter 7: PSY100 – Week 9
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Forgetting, the inability to retrieve memory from long-term storage. German psychologist hermann ebbinghaus provided compelling evidence that forgetting occurs rapidly over the first few days but then levels off. Ebbinghaus used the so-called methods of savings to examine how long it took people to learn lists of nonsense syllables. The difference between the original learning and relearning is savings time and effort saved because of what you remember. Daniel schacter has identified what he cales the seven sings of memory. Schacter argues that they are useful or perhaps even necessary characteristics for survival, by-products of otherwise desirable aspects of human memory. Reduced memory due to failing to pay attention. Influence of current knowledge on our memory for past events. The resurgence of unwanted or disturbing memories that we would like to forget. Losing your keys or forgetting a lunch date. Failing to recall the name of a person you meet on the street.
