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Consider psychological research into explanations of forgetting in Short-term memory
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Consider psychological research into explanations of forgetting in Short-term memory The term forgetting is used when learnt information can't be retrieved from both the short term memory and the long term memory. There have been many suggestions made to explain the reason that we forget information. The most common explanation came from Freud who devised the theory of repression. In his theory he believed that forgetting occurs because memories can be emotionally painful, mainly as they are the remnants of a trauma or an unpleasant event. Repression occurs when the mind represses these memories. Although this is a valid explanation for the forgetting of tragic memories it fails to explain the vast amount of forgetting of more daily occurring mundane events. To justify forgetting within STM psychologists suggests that information stored in the STM simply disappears with time, or it is pushed out by new information. Considering that the STM only has...
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