FORGETTING!!!

Who have not watch the movie called The Finding Nemo. Your childhood life would not be completed without one. As everyone could recall, there is one fish in the story that keeps on forgetting things which named Dory. So, in this new post, I would explain on why do we forget.


Psychiatric had done studies on forgetting and they had found out about the curve of forgetting.

The graph showed  a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within the first hour after learning a list and then tapers off gradually.

In forgetting there are encoding failure which means that he/she fails to process information into memory.

There are also memory trace theory. The theory mostly explains about the physical change in the brain that occurs when a memory is formed.

The theory was divided into two which is:-

Decay - loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used.

Disuse - another name for decay, assuming that memories that are not used will eventually decay and disappear.

Forgetting are also cause by Interference Theory as stated above

Last but not least, forgetting is also cause by Amnesia. There are two type:-

These amnesia would usually caused Alzheimer disease.