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Time after time I’ve heard many adults claim that they do not remember much of what they learned in high school. So how quickly do we actually lose information? A study done by University of East Anglia tested 594 students in their first week of term at five universities. A timed test was used to challenge their memory of core concepts taught the last year of high school. The lead researcher, Dr. Harriet Jones, stated that information lost from sitting in top level classes in high school and three months later arriving at a university neared 60 percent. Professors are known to teach student to the final exam and not to retaining it for continued education. The study also found that the longer the lapse of time between two stages of education, the more knowledge that was lost(University of East Anglia). Our semantic memory stores general knowledge and facts(Wood, 174). Simple information in our semantic memory can be lost by displacement, chunking, or interference of things such as summer break. I, too, know that if I don't continue to study what I recently learned by maintenance rehearsal, it would get lost quickly. Remembering core concepts are useful in continued education to make new information easier to learn and retain.

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Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. // Mastering the World of Psychology //. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

University of East Anglia. "First year university students struggle to remember basic concepts learned the year before." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 June 2014. . Only graders edit below this line!

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