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Entry: Why do we forget? - A3796806
Author: d586poetpaul - U1381940

Short description of psychological reasons for forgetting.

yes, short.

storage process? i'm interested but i want to know more.....

please!

Yes, it does need rather more content. Like defining long and short term memory for those of us - like me - who don't know exactly what those terms mean.

And since we already have an edited entry about forgetfulness A254288 you must be sure not to overlap information with that one too much.

The subject is and interesting one, and might be expanded to an exceptional entry (if I don't forget to come back and read it later).

The title, however, should probably be reworked regardless of the direction it takes. Rather than the title asking the question "Why do do we forget?", it would be better for an entry to be titled "Why we forget" or "How we forget", or even "How we remember what we've forgotten.

Thanks for the input so far i'll get working on a longer version of it (full of details and citations) ill have a look at that other entry and i'll be sure to thoroughly explain Short and Long term memory (I forget that people that haven't studied psychology don't know these terms)

A fantastic entry idea, and especially ideal for me since I forget stuff all the time. With a bit of expansion, this will make a great addition to the guide. I can't find anything particularly wrong with what you have, but I really look forward to watching this one develop. Good luck to you.

I've substantially updated the entry, on 26/04/2005.

Are you doing AS level Psychology? This is exactly what I did last year. I always found it an interesting topic.

Comments: The definitions of STM and LTM would be better contained in an introduction at the start, and I'd ditch the bit about the sections of the entry, or put it at the end of a (short) intro.

Secondly, you don't necessarily need to include the names of the psychologists, as it might make it seem a bit dry. Up to you though.

It seems a bit dry overall to me, but that's just my impression. Any way you could liven it up a bit? Good job though.

Also, the first bit would read better if you could rewrite it into paragraphs, like the rest.

No im studying it at university, I did the scottish equivalent of AS level last year.

Yes, I just read that on your personal space, sorry! That explains why I hadn't heard of some of those theories and studies!

key points?
is this related to a course of some form?





their method(s)

information goes on to

is transferred to?

Serial tranfer to Short Term Memory? what? the "serial" bit confuses me...


Visuo-spacial Scrachpad

Visuo-spatial Scratchpad? (to caps or not to caps?)


It also has a limited capacity of (7 +/- 2).

like, it can only hold about 7 memories? 7+/-2 what?

retrived (retrieved)

and rapid serial readout? this confuses me. what goes thruogh every piece of information?


Two Effects In STM
???

what has two effects in STM?

(continuous prose is generally favoured over notes...)


(k)new the word

very limited decay

some decay? i don't know.


does not count for

does not apply to



i like it.

good fun.

Or was it the year before... I went into alot more detail that this it was hard thinking about what to put in and what not to put in, hence the short length of the original entry. I think ill leave all the definitions as long, i think that the definitions of LTM and STM are sufficient (theres so much more that i missed out). Ill have a look at removing some of the Studies. (I find myself mentioning studies automatically when you have to know so many for Uni Psych)

Re the Key points bit; no not really related to a course i just thought it would be easier for people to understand if i said that those were Key points withing STM/ LTM etc

More changes made (regards suggestions up to here). Thanks for input so far.

One more thing, Writing Guidelines say you shouldn't write in bold.

It does rather resemble putting your lecture notes up on screen. You don't need to cite references for the guide but if an experiment really needs descibing you can say "An interesting experiment by Psychologist Alan Baddeley...etc"

Also, Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch described working memory as split into the visuo-spatial scratchpad which contains spatial/pictorial info, the auditory (or articulatory) loop, which stores the information in verbal form, and the central executive which allocates attention/processing power to either.

Don't you think that would be too in depth, i was just trying to put forward the idea of the visio spatial scratch pad. Ill get rid of the studies i wasn't sure if it'd need that amount of depth or not, I decided to put them in because as I said previously i get used to writing that way and I used them in researching.

I agree that maybe that is in too much depth, but you've got an inaccurate section where you state that material is held in working memory in verbal form in the visuo-spatial scratchpad. This isn't the case in Baddeley and Hitch's model. There are the two slave stores, one for verbal and one for spatial material. That was all I was pointing out really.

All the best,

Moooose