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Chapter 5 - Forgetting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2025

Kenneth J. Malmberg
Kenneth J. Malmberg
Affiliation:
University of South Florida
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Forgetting is a phenomenon that is familiar to everyone and among the most extensively investigated in psychological science. It is, therefore, quite surprising that forgetting is widely misunderstood by the layperson and even by researchers. Evidence for the permanence of long-term memories is presented, and the distinction between the accessibility and availability of memories is discussed. Search of associative memory (SAM) and retrieving effectively from memory (REM) models of forgetting are described and extended as a proposal for everyday forgetting.

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interferencecontextautobiographical memoryintentional forgettingverbal learning
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Human Memory
The General Theory and Its Various Models
 , pp. 108 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Forgetting
  • Kenneth J. Malmberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Human Memory
  • Online publication: 17 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009440370.007
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  • Forgetting
  • Kenneth J. Malmberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Human Memory
  • Online publication: 17 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009440370.007
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  • Forgetting
  • Kenneth J. Malmberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Human Memory
  • Online publication: 17 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009440370.007
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