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forgetting

n. the failure to remember material previously learned. Numerous processes and theories have been proposed throughout the long history of study to account for forgetting, including decay theory and interference theory. Forgetting typically is a normal phenomenon but it may also be pathological, as, for example, in amnesia.

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