What is a forgotten curve?
Forgotten curve is a graph that illustrates how we forget information over time. It was formulated in 1885 Hermann Ebbinghaus, who carried out experiments to understand how long the human mind has retained information over time. Ebbinghaus found that we quickly forget half of what we learned in the first hour, and that the new material must be regularly checked over time to stable in memory. The Ebbinghaus curve was a pioneering step forward in understanding human memory.
Ebbinghaus was one of the most important psychologists of his time who used scientific processes to study the ability to keep and forget information. It was used as a test item and began experimenting with its own ability to remember information by creating a set of 2,300 three letters, nonsensical words that she remembered like "zof". Its aim to select these words was to find out how well remembered information that had no meaningor relevant to it in any way. He studied lists of multiples of these words and tested them withdrawal at different time intervals for one year.
The results of his experiments provided a numerous insight into the exponential nature of memory retention. The formula for him is r = e^(-t/s), where t and s is the time that has gone away from learning and power of memory, respectively R and r means retention of memory. He published an article that described the forgotness curve in 1885 entitled "Memory: Contribution to Experimental Psychology". The results of the experiments were brought into the establishment of the Ebbinghaus curve forgotten, which revealed how the information will forget over time. This curve is also known as the Ebbinghaus Forgetting curve, EFBINGHAUS EFFECT and EBBINGHAUS FUNFORTING FUNCTION.
According to his findings, people forget 40 percent of the Coy learn after the first 20 minutes and leave after six daysOnly 30 percent of the information. After a certain time of forgetting, it reaches the plateau and the measure for which people forget will become slower. This shows that data stored in long -term memory is relatively stable. Ebbinghaus also found out how repetition increases the amount of detained information and how each repetition increased the time interval before further repetition.
His pioneering research has presented many other knowledge of the nature of memory. He revealed how difficult it is for the mind to store information that has no real meaning to a person. He also showed that a person may have more success with an improvement in appeal if the overview of the new material has spread them and that it is easier to re -put the material for the second time than for the first time. Although this research is very old, the knowledge presented by Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve is still used by psychologists today.