s, Ebbinghaus was able to identify several different forms of remembering. Recognition: a way of remembering. When we may not be able to recall something, but if it is presented to us we will know that it is what we were trying to remember. Recall: being able to bring the information we want to mind.Ebbinghaus also found two other ways in which we could recall information; Reintegration: when we have forgotten something, we are able to put it together by recalling everything associated with it, and find we are able to reconstruct a memory. Re-learning savings: when we have learned something once, it won't take us as long to learn it a second time.Strategies, which help us to remember, are called MNEMONICS, visual imagery and sentences. Many people remember the order of the colours of the rainbow by remembering the sentence 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vane'. The first letter of each word representing the colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. There are also the silly ones that people use to put on personal letters and cards like: HOLLAND; hope our love lasts and never dies, and CHIP; come home I'm pregnant, are to name only a few, there are many, many more of them.In order to understand how the memory system works, we need to look at some of the reasons why we lose information (why we forget things). Displacement: items that are currently in our STM are pushed aside to make room for new incoming items. Decay Theory: where the memory trace fades away with time so that it is no longer available. Interference Theory: where the memory traces are disrupted or obscured by other incoming information. Retrieval Failure: where the items stored in LTM cannot be accessed because suitable retrieval cues are not available. Cues are items of information, which help us to recall others; they lead us mentally to the item we want to remember.Most people however, find their memory is faulty when it comes to recal...
