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a b Ebbinghaus, Hermann (1913). Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. Translated by Ruger, Henry; Bussenius, Clara. New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university.

The forgetting curve supports one of the seven kinds of memory failures: transience, which is the process of forgetting that occurs with the passage of time. [2] History [ edit ] This doesn’t mean we can’t learn complex material. We just have to find ways to break down the material into pieces of information that we can work with and remember. Building a strong foundation in a subject will make it easier to take in complex concepts. How the Information Is Presented Rubin, David C.; Hinton, Sean; Wenzel, Amy (1999). "The precise time course of retention". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 25 (5): 1161–1176. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.5.1161. hdl: 10161/10146.There is evidence that the consolidation process is impaired if there is damage to the hippocampus (a region of the brain). In 1953, HM had brain surgery to treat his epilepsy, which had become extremely severe. Be clear and confident. When you are clear about the information, there is little room for the audience to question your information or to search for a deeper meaning in it. We need to elaborate on the choice of these time intervals as there is some confusion about the exact length of the shorter retention intervals used by Ebbinghaus. He mentions both 15 min (in 1880 [ 8]) and 19 min (in 1885 [ 9]) for the shortest interval, and 63 min and 8.75 hours (525 min) for the longer intervals. He also states that relearning took place “after about one third of an hour, after 1 hour, after 9 hours, one day, two days, six days, or 31 days.” ([ 20], p. 66). Heller et al. [ 21] followed the latter intervals, using 20 min, 60 min and 9 hours, etc. We have also used these, given that this seems to have been the intended lengths of Ebbinghaus’ retention intervals. The deviations these values by Ebbinghaus are based on corrections after the experiment. Nelson TO (1985) Ebbinghaus's contribution to the measurement of retention: Savings during relearning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 11: 472–479. pmid:3160812

An interesting experiment conducted by Baddeley (1975) indicates the importance of setting for retrieval. Baddeley (1975 ) asked deep-sea divers to memorize a list of words. One group did this on the beach and the other group underwater. When they were asked to remember the words half of the beach learners remained on the beach, the rest had to recall underwater. Darby KP, Sloutsky VM. The cost of learning: Interference effects in memory development. J Exp Psychol. 2015;144(2):410–431. doi:10.1037/xge0000051 Bergman ET, Roediger HL (1999) Can Bartlett’s repeated reproduction experiments be replicated? Memory & Cognition 27: 937–947. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Forgetting information from short term memory (STM) can be explained using the theories of trace decay and displacement.