Ebbinghaus s scientific memory confronts the forgetting curve

Mondo Education Updated on 2024-01-28

Wherever a high-frequency review is stuck, you have to start from scratch, so everyone remember this secret, as long as the high-frequency review can be fast-paced, and vice versa, you only need to learn Xi efficiently as long as you want to. It is necessary to review frequently, which is a mechanism in psychology.

The mechanism behind neuroscience is even more brutal. Now, cognitive neuroscience has told us that everything you remember will have a corresponding corresponding neural structure in the brain, and the changes in the nerve include the establishment of new neural circuit links, including neuronal axons, fascicles, and new branches.

Learning Xi inherently corresponds to the change of neurophysiological structure to produce new neural structures, so from the perspective of memory neuroscience, each stage of memory is transforming the nervous system. When you look closely, you will have a time-lapse memory, and you can close your eyes and you can come up with important sentences or knowledge points in your mind.

If you don't repeat the memory and keep it, then the sequential memory will be lost, and you won't be able to remember it the next day, so what do you want to turn it into a longer memory?According to the Ebbinghaus test, some data was obtained:

Ebbinghaus then drew a curve based on these points, which is the famous curve that reveals the law of forgetting

The vertical axis represents the amount of knowledge memorized in Xi, the horizontal axis represents the time (days), and the curve represents the law of change in memory.

This curve tells us that the content of memory in the learning Xi is forgotten regularly, and the process of forgetting is not balanced, not a few are lost one day and a few more are lost the next day, but the speed of forgetting is very fast in the initial stage of memory, and then it gradually slows down, and after a long time, it is almost no longer forgotten, which is the law of the development of forgetting, namely"Fast first, then slow"principles. Looking at this forgetting curve, you will find that after a day, if you do not hurry up and Xi, only 25% of the original knowledge will remain. Over time, the rate of forgetting slows down, and so does the amount of forgetting.

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