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25. It's a good thing that people forget
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- 1Why does the brain forget? Is it a flaw?Forgetting things is not a flaw, but it's a way your mind filters out unnecessary information.
- 2Who created the Forgetting Curve?Hermann Ebbinghaus (1886).
- 3What is the Forgetting Curve and what is the formula?R is memory retention, S is the relative strength of memory, and T is the time which is called the Forgetting Curve which shows we forget information unless it is stored in long-term memory.