25. It's a good thing that people forget

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Summary of Chapter 25 in COMMENTS.
Kathie Connelly
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Why does the brain forget? Is it a flaw? Forgetting things is not a flaw, but it's a way your mind filters out unnecessary information.
Who created the Forgetting Curve? Hermann Ebbinghaus (1886).
What is the Forgetting Curve and what is the formula? R is memory retention, S is the relative strength of memory, and T is the time which is called the Forgetting Curve which shows we forget information unless it is stored in long-term memory.
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