robert bjork - retrieval induced forgetting

[@lizzieanne8948]

Well this explanation just saved about an hour of trying to figure out the structure of this paradigm.... thank you!

[@vaibhavanandsharma88]

Easy explanation. Love the relaxed way he explains this seemingly paradoxical and difficult to comprehend theory. Love from India.

[@tullochgorum6323]

I'm not clear why this result is regarded as mysterious and counter-intuitive. We know that our brains evolved to recall the important and forget the ephemeral. By only revising a subset of the categories, we are surely sending a clear message to our brain that the subset we didn't revise is not important and can be safely forgotten. Or am I misunderstanding something?