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The Forgetting Curve
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Ebbinghaus found that memory for new material drops sharply at first and then levels off.
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Ebbinghaus reported forgetting about half of learned nonsense syllables within twenty minutes and about seventy percent within a day.
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The curve was measured on meaningless material learned by one person. Meaningful material decays more slowly.