The Famous Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

question 294

Multiple Choice

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve:

• A)showed that long-term potentiation failure is the primary cause of forgetting.
• B)demonstrates that much of what we forget is lost relatively soon after we originally learn the information
• C)demonstrated that encoding failure is the primary reason we forget most information.
• D)showed that the "magical number" of items that can be held in short-term memory is four, plus or minus one, and not seven plus or minus two, as had been believed.

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