rehersal

Question 1

describe rehersal

Answer 1

rehersal increases the time information is held within the short term memory

Question 2

describe maintanance rehersal

Answer 2

repeating over and over either vocally or sub vocally (in your head). it extends the time memory exists in STM.

Question 3

Describe Ebbinghaus and his forgetting curve

Answer 3

Ebbinghaus was teh frist person to perfrom a systematic research into remebering and forgetting in 1885. he experimented using 1 participant (himself). He did not want previous knowledge to interfere with results therefore he used listss of pronouncable nonsense syllables - BUP, TOV, LEV. In his study he recorded th number of trials it took before he could memorise the lists of nonsense syllables. Once he had a perfect6 score fro remembering the words on eachlist, he waited various periods of time (20 mins - 30 days) he then re testded himself again to see what percentage of information he had retained.

Question 4

what were the results of Ebbinghaus study

Answer 4

• forgetting occured most rapidly in the first 20 mins at a moderate rate unitl one day had passed, and then very gradually for the next 31 days.