CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The issue was hypothesized by Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885, which is why it’s called Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. The theory is that humans start losing the memory of learned knowledge over time, in a matter of days or weeks, unless the learned knowledge is consciously reviewed time and again.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Memory experiments Ebbinghaus started by memorizing lists of words and testing how many he could recall. To avoid the use of association, he then created 2, 300 “nonsense syllables”, all three letters long and using the standard word format of consonant-vowel-consonant: for example, “ZUC” and “QAX”.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ebbinghaus believed that each repetition in learning increases the optimum interval before the next repetition is needed and for near-perfect retention, initial repetitions may need to be made within days. However, later research suggested that higher original learning could also produce slower forgetting.