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Forgetting 1. The greatest amount of forgetting occurs directly after finishing the learning task. 2.The greatest amount of forgetting occurs rapidly, during the first day. 3. Forgetting is still sizable during the first fourteen days. 4. Forgetting slows down after two weeks, but again there is not much left to forget. 5. Remembering what you have heard is usually more difficult than remembering what you have read. 6. Forgetting is sometimes incorrectly labelled. Normally the causes are 1) Pseudo-Forgetting - You never had it forgetting 2) Mental Blur forgetting. Your brain is the only organ in your body that can't feel pain. Because of this, brain surgery can be carried out without a general anaesthetic. You are given something to numb the scalp and skull, and then the surgeon can drill through. But, if the drill slipped and started to gouge into your brain, you wouldn't feel a thing. The lack of pain receptors is a real bonus...

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