20 17 Guangdong teacher recruitment examination * * * Basic knowledge: so hard to forget causes and laws (educational psychology)?

First, the theory of memory trace decline, representative figures: Aristotle and Thorndike.

According to the theory of memory trace decline, forgetting is the result of memory trace gradually declining or even disappearing without strengthening.

The second is interference suppression theory, represented by Jenkins and Darren Bashi.

Interference inhibition theory holds that forgetting is caused by the interference of other stimuli between learning and memory. This theory can be illustrated by proactive inhibition and proactive inhibition.

Three. Assimilation theory is represented by Ausubel.

Forgetting is actually a process of knowledge organization and simplification of cognitive structure, that is, after we learn advanced concepts, low-level concepts are forgotten.

Fourth, motivation theory (repression theory), the representative figure: Freud.

Freud believed that forgetting was caused by the depression of emotion or motivation, and if this depression was lifted, memory could be restored.

Fifth, the theory of extraction failure

This theory holds that the information stored in long-term memory will never be lost, and it is forgotten because there is no clue in advance. Once you have the right clue, your memory will be restored.