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Critical Thinking Questions:Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous forgetting curve? Several years after learning the dates of important historical events for a college class, students:
A
will remember most of the dates, and will remember them for years to come.
B
will remember most of the dates, and will slowly start to forget them.
C
will have forgotten most of the dates, but what they do remember, they’ll remember for years to come.
D
will have forgotten most of the dates, but during the years to come, they will again remember what they initially forgot.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Forgetting Curve, or the Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting, is an influential memory model. It shows how learned information slips out of our memories over time – unless we take action to keep it there.

Detailed explanation-2: -The famous Ebbinghaus “forgetting curve” indicates that how well we remember information depends on: how long ago we learned that information.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ebbinghaus is known for his ‘forgetting curve’ which suggests that people tend to continually halve their memory of newly learned knowledge in a matter of days or weeks unless they actively review the learned material [9].

Detailed explanation-4: -Have you ever taken a course and already the next day felt like you forgot most of what you’ve learned? That’s not surprising. Unless we consciously do something to retain newly acquired information, we are likely to forget it in a matter of days.

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