Theories of Forgetting.

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Forgetting

. The greatest amount of forgetting occurs directly after finishing the learning task.

2.The greatest amount of forgetting occurs rapidly, during the first day.

3. Forgetting is still sizable during the first fourteen days.

4. Forgetting slows down after two weeks, but again there is not much left to forget.

5. Remembering what you have heard is usually more difficult than remembering what you have read.

6. Forgetting is sometimes incorrectly labelled. Normally the causes are

) Pseudo-Forgetting - You never had it forgetting

2) Mental Blur forgetting.

Your brain is the only organ in your body that can't feel pain. Because of this, brain surgery can be carried out without a general anaesthetic. You are given something to numb the scalp and skull, and then the surgeon can drill through. But, if the drill slipped and started to gouge into your brain, you wouldn't feel a thing. The lack of pain receptors is a real bonus for brain surgeons. Instead of having a patient who just lies there like a sack of meat, they have somebody who can tell them what's happening as they probe and snip.

In 1935 a neurosurgeon named Wilder Penfield started some experimental work at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A patient lay in the operating theatre with the top of her skull off while Dr Penfield inserted slim electrodes into her brain. The idea was to trigger a small electric current through each electrode in turn, thus stimulating the area of the brain in which it was buried. That way, he could learn which parts of the brain did what.
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When everything was in place, he sent in the first little jolt of electricity and asked the patient what was happening. She told him her ear felt funny. Another little jolt and her foot twitched. And so on. Then something strange happened. He sent in a jolt and the patient reported she was back in childhood, hearing her mother call to her to come into the kitchen. This had happened thirty years before, but every detail was still there - the wind in her hair, the expression on her mother's face, each word spoken ... everything. It had ...

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