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Forgetting To understand why we forget we must ask: 1. If the information has been stored. i.e. availability 2. Can the information be retrieved. i.e. accessibility Atkinson and Shiffrin Availability is due to the transfer of information from the short term memory to the long term memory whilst accessibility is to do with the long term memory. Trace decay, displacement and interference prevents information staying in short term memory long enough to be transferred to long term memory. Interference, motivated forgetting and cue - dependant forgetting are all to do with the failure to retrieve. Trace Decay William James (1890) Stated that learning leaves a 'trace' in the brain (i.e. there is some sort of physical change after learning). Forgetting is due to a spontaneous fading or weakening of the neural memory trace over time. Hebb (1949) Stated that it only applies to short term memory. Evidence seems to sagest that it is what happens in between ...

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