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Using Psychological Research explain why a student would forget about their Psychology Homework. Forgetting to do things is not uncommon. There are many different relevant explanations as to why a student would forget to do their Psychology work. This could have occurred at the encoding, storage or retrieval stage. There are two distinctions between forgetting. They are availability - whether the information was stored in the first place, and accessibility - whether the information can be retrieved from where it has been stored. The first way in which the student may have forgotten their homework is through availability problems because it had not reached their Long Term Memory. This could have been for two reasons. Firstly this may be due to limitations of the multi-store model of memory, and could have been lost through decay or displacement. The multi-store model reduces what information is received down into smaller proportions, so that it is...

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