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Outline and Evaluate Two Explanations of Forgetting.
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OUTLINE AND EVALUATE TWO EXPLANATIONS OF FORGETTING It can be said that while we were studying the capacity of long term memory and short term memory we over looked forgetting. The reason for memory missing has been tried to solve by many psychologists with different experiments. I can also say that from the studies it shows that memories are not lost due to capacity of the stores, but because it has been forgotten. There are three different types of forgetting in the short term memory which are trace decay, interference and diversion of attention. I will be talking about trace decay and showing experiments to support the theory. In the study by Peterson and Peterson it was found that recall dropped from 80% after 3 second recall to fewer than 20% when the retention interval was 18 seconds. They believe the cause of this drop was due to one possibility which...
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