Definitions for forgetting
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1. forgettingnoun

   The mental act by which something is forgotten.

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1. Forgetting

   Forgetting or disremembering is the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory. It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. Problems with remembering, learning and retaining new information are a few of the most common complaints of older adults. Studies show that retention improves with increased rehearsal. This improvement occurs because rehearsal helps to transfer information into long-term memory.Forgetting curves (amount remembered as a function of time since an event was first experienced) have been extensively analyzed. The most recent evidence suggests that a power function provides the closest mathematical fit to the forgetting function.

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1. Forgetting

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1. Forgetting

   Forgetting refers to apparent loss of information already encoded and stored in an individual's long term memory. It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. Problems with remembering, learning and retaining new information are a few of the most common complaints of older adults. Memory performance is usually related to the active functioning of three stages. These three stages are encoding, storage and retrieval. Many different factors influence the actual process of forgetting. An example of one of these factors could be the amount of time the new information is stored in the memory. Events involved with forgetting can happen either before or after the actual memory process. The amount of time the information is stored in the memory, depending on the minutes hours or even days, can increase or decrease depending on how well the information is encoded. Studies show that retention improves the increased rehearsal. This improvement occurs because rehearsal helps to transfer information into long term memory. - practice makes perfect. It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled. Forgetting can be reduced by repetition and/or more elaborate cognitive processing of information. Emotional states are just one of the many factors that have been found to effect this process of forgetting. As a disorder or in more severe cases this may be described as amnesia.

How to pronounce forgetting?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of forgetting in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of forgetting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of forgetting in a Sentence

1. Marie Teresa Brown:

   Cost, access to health care, and simply forgetting have in the past been thought by doctors to be the main reason for non-adherence, however, most non-adherence is intentional – patients choose not to take their medications.

2. Dean Koontz:

   Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

3. Rey Chavez:

   Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her, it's still sinking in.

4. President Barack Obama:

   She was even asked to double-check the computer's math on John Glenn's orbit around the earth. So if you think your job is pressure-packed, hers meant that forgetting to carry the one might send somebody floating off into the solar system.

5. Elon Musk:

   I keep forgetting that you’re still alive, want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Forgetting
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgetting
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=forgetting