Forgetting and Memory
9. Many times people say “I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night!” and they are likely joking, but people do forget information all the time. There several possible cellular mechanisms for forgetting information. Describe one such mechanism and how you would experimentally determine that it is essential for the behavioral outcome of forgetting.
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How people learn and forget things is very intriguing to scientists. Especially how people forget about the things that they learnt is something that people wonder about. This was until recently when studies have showed that the process that takes place during learning has so much in common with the process that takes place during forgetting of the information learnt. As noted by the researchers, just like there is need for different processes to take place in order to create memory, there are different processes that take place during the erasing of such memories (Byrne, 2009). This is what is referred to as forgetting…
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