Why must we study repetition of memory

Why must we study repetition of memory? Cant our participants remember?

Dear HR, Training and L&D teams,

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Why must we study repetition of memory? Cant our participants remember?

>Back in the late 1880’s, a psychologist named Herman Ebbinghaus became the first to systematically tackle the analysis of memory, and he did this by spending years memorizing lists of nonsensical syllables that he made up.

By meticulously recording his results – how many times he studied each list, the time intervals between his study sessions, and how much he was able to remember – Ebbinghaus was able to chart the rate at which memories “decay” over time. He showed this rate of decay in a graph called the Forgetting Curve.

The first principle of this theory is that memories have two different strengths – storage strength and retrieval strength.

• Storage strength doesn’t fade over time. Once information has been acquired and the brain deems it to have met some threshold of importance, it stays stored. Storage strength can only increase through repeated recall or use.
• Retrieval strength – the ability to access the memory – does fade. It’s fickle, not as voluminous as storage strength, and needs regular maintenance.

As a result, “forgetting” is an accessibility problem. The memory exists in storage, but you can’t find it.

In summary, we cannot cramp too many things to learn in a 2 days training program or even a 1 day training program if there is no intended repetition program. Remember not all of us has a 100% Retrieval Strength memory, we can store the information but fail to remember it. 

Until my next sharing,

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