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Abstract People tend to forget things all the time, both past events and future events. Psychologists have tried to explain why this happen and they have come up with several different explanations. The reason why we forget can be due to one's age or one's mental state. Why don't we remember everything when we try to recall different memories then? There are many answers, but one quite possible factor can be due to time. The longer interval between the learning and the recall, the less we remember. Regarding amnesia, several forms will be presented, for example Anterograde amnesia, infantile amnesia and retrograde amnesia. Also Prospective Memory will be mentioned. That's when people forget to do things, like make an important call. Forgetting Introduction Many psychologists are interested in the phenomena of forgetting. What are the causes why people forget things? Any experience, old, new, exciting or boring, can disappear from our memory. Even though we...

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