Rich Shiffrin was a graduate student in psychology when he and Dick Atkinson, then a member of the Stanford faculty, began working on a series of experiments related to memory. Their research became the basis for a theoretical framework they called ...
Sometimes efforts to retrieve memory fail. Context or content cues, or multiple cues for the same memory increases the likelihood that the information can be accessed. In some cases, it is important to forget what has been learned, to replace one me...