关于记忆弱化过程的某些特征及其变异性的一项实验研究

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FADING PROCESS OF MEMORY AND ITS VARIATIONS

这项研究旨在证明这样一个假设,即在学习之后,记忆有一个随时间而逐渐弱化的过程。其表现是,在通常情况下,对学习过的东西的回忆时间随学习到回忆之间的时间间隔的延长而趋于增加,错误回忆和遗忘的数量也随之增加。记忆弱化的因素有种种,因而虽有一般的趋势,又表现出很大变异性。

This is one of the two studies conducted to confirm the supposition thatforgetting is a fading process of memory, and so under usual conditions, thetime needed for recall of the itemslearned, the number of items incorrectlyrecalled, and also the number of items forgot. will increase with the lengtheningof the interval time between learning and recall, and that, because there aremany factors influencing memory and recall, there will be remarkable variationsin the manifestations of the general tendency of the fading process. Suchsupposition has been mainly confirmed by the experimental results. We assumethat the forgetting process would be understood better under such a supposition.