Why do we forget?

Why do we forget?
Can you recall your passport number? Bet, you can’t. Simply, because it is not used everyday.

You will have to make a big effort to seek it out from the bottom of the stack of information that is stored in your brain.

To be remembered easily, information needs to be organized and meaningful, and needs to come to us at a slow pace so as to process it.

The reason for most of the annoying instances of forgetting is that you do not take the trouble to connect new information with some fact you already know.

Isolated facts drop out of the mind quickly but if you file new knowledge in relation to something already established in your mind, you will retain it and be able to refer to it whenever you need it.

It is simply a matter of making special use for your power of association, which is the beginning of all learning processes.

In mental term, the more you associate a fact with other stored information in your mind the better your memory can retain it. Each of its associates becomes a hook on which the new information hangs.

Association is making mental hook from which you may fish facts of your mind as you require them.

The mental filing system will provide the mental hooks upon which to hang, or file, anything you want to remember.

Certain selected called Key Words, are the mental hooks in your filling system. Each of these represent a vivid image.

Let us see what reasons the scientist have attributed to the habit of forgetting. The scientific theory is that people forget more as time passes. This make sense.

According to the scientists we forget things because of certain processes. These process are:
• Interference
• Motivated forgetting
• Retrieval failure
• Constructive process

Why do we forget?