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Explain How Long Term Memory Will Never Forget By Ebbinghaus

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The idea of transience is that a long-term memory will fade in terms of its strength over time. Ebbinghaus had discovered that people memorizing nonsense syllables would retain these syllables for a short period of time, but forget them after a while. The people learning these syllables would eventually forget them all together, and would have to relearn them, which would take a shorter amount of time than it did for them to initially learn them, which he called “savings.” When information is meaningless, then the amount of time to forget it is rapid, then a “declining rate of loss,” which Ebbinghaus showed with a graph called the forgetting curve. When the information is meaningful, then it will still fade from memory, but not as fast as meaningless …show more content…

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