ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 1982, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (02): 41-49.

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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FADING PROCESS OF MEMORY AND ITS VARIATIONS

Li Ling-jie Institute of Psychology, Academia Sinica   

  • Published:1982-06-25 Online:1982-06-25

Abstract: This is one of the two studies conducted to confirm the supposition thatforgetting is a fading process of memory, and so under usual conditions, thetime needed for recall of the itemslearned, the number of items incorrectlyrecalled, and also the number of items forgot. will increase with the lengtheningof the interval time between learning and recall, and that, because there aremany factors influencing memory and recall, there will be remarkable variationsin the manifestations of the general tendency of the fading process. Suchsupposition has been mainly confirmed by the experimental results. We assumethat the forgetting process would be understood better under such a supposition.

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