Editing Forgetting curve (section)

{{Short description|Decline of memory retention in time}}
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[[File:Forgetting curve decline.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|A representation of the forgetting curve showing retained information halving after each day]]
The '''forgetting curve''' hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.<ref name="uwaterloo.ca">{{Cite web |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/counselling-services/curve-forgetting |title=Curve of Forgetting {{!}} Counselling Services<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2017-08-28 |archive-date=2017-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329184930/https://uwaterloo.ca/counselling-services/curve-forgetting |url-status=dead }}</ref>  A related concept is the '''strength of memory''' that refers to the durability that [[memory]] traces in the [[Human brain|brain]]. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time that a person is able to recall it. A typical [[graph of a function|graph]] of the [[forgetting]] curve purports to show that humans tend to halve their memory of newly learned knowledge in a matter of days or weeks unless they consciously review the learned material.

The forgetting curve supports one of the seven kinds of memory failures: transience, which is the process of forgetting that occurs with the passage of time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schacter|first=D. L.|title=Psychology|url=https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha|url-access=registration|year=2009|publisher=Worth Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4292-3719-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha/page/243 243]}}</ref>