Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question. However, when a guest speaker came to class a week
later to talk about schizophrenia, she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material. She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later. What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?
Curve of forgetting or the forgetting curve was developed by a German psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus.
The forgetting curve demonstrates the declination of memory maintenance or retention in time. It states that there is a loss in memory or information over a period of time if memory rehearsal or retention is not being done.
The brain lacks the ability to a piece of memory over time if the memory is not being recalled or retained.
In the case of Lisa, in the given question loss of memory occurs because the memory has not been consciously reviewed again.
