FOR GETTING , EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY

WHAT  IS FORGETTING ?

       FORGETTING 

    Forgetting and remembering are just two facets of the  same coin. Both have equal importance in a life.  Generally where vary much worried about remembering and give a little  importance to forgetting.  But forgetting is  of no less value.  It is an essential aspects of the learning process. One must be able to forget the incorrect response in order to acquire correct ones.  Unessential , improper or irrelevant things should always be forgotten in order to make  room for the learning of the essential and relevant ones.  More over we have hundered or thousands  of experience and kinds of learning  every day in life . To remember all of these without  forgetting  will be a difficult  task.

      There for actually forgetting is a boon of us.

    WHAT'S FORGETTING ? 

   AS a matter of lame excuse we often hear the comments 'Excuse me,  I have forgotten it.  '' A student complains and repents over forgetting material he remembers.   

Some of definitions given by eminent write 

 1 MUNN: Forgetting is loss,  permanent or temporary,  of the ability of recall or recognize something learned earlier .

2 DREVER: Forgetting means failure at any time  to recall an experience  , when attempting to do  so,  or perform  an action  previously  learned.   

3  BHATIA: forgetting is  the  failure  of the  individual  to revive in consciousness an idea or group  of ideas without the help  of the original  stimulus. 

KINDS OF FORGETTING 

 forgetting may be roughly  divided  into two broad categories :- a)  passive or natural forgetting  b)  active or forgetting 

PASSIVE FORGETTING : this kind of forgetting in which  there is no intention  of forgetting  on the part  of individual is known as passive  forgetting  . In this  kind  of forgetting  one has not to make any deliberate  efforts . 

2 ACTIVE FORGETTING : it is also known as abnormal  forgetting  . In this forgetting  one deliberately tries to  forget  something . This  kind of forgetfulness,  as Freud explain,  originates from repression.  Under  this  process,  the painful  experience  and  bitter memory are deliberately  pushed  into  the  unconscious  layer of  the mind and are left there for forgetting.  

   WHY DO WE FORGET ? 

   some of these reasons for we forget 

INADEQUATE IMPRESSION AT THE TIME OF  LEARNING, LAPSE OF TIME  , INTERFERENCE OF ASSOCIATION,  REPRESSION,  RISE OF  EMOTIONS,  ALTERATION OF STIMULUS CONDITION,  POOR HEALTH AND DEFECTIVE MENTAL STATE.