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Forgetting and remembering in psychology: Commentary on Paul Connerton's `Seven Types of Forgetting' (2008)

The City University of New York, USA, iyledre{at}comcast.net

In this commentary, I compare psychology's treatment of forgetting, especially the works of Ebbinghaus, Bartlett, Ballard, Freud, and modern researchers, to Connerton's approach. I suggest that as the stimuli have become more complex (moving from nonsense syllables and lists of words to stories and real-life events, as found, for example, in clinical and forensic settings), memory theory in psychology becomes increasingly constructivist and motivational, and converges in significant respects with historical-sociological formulations of forgetting, such as Connerton's.

Key Words: constructivism • decay • defense • interference • oblivescence • reminiscence

Memory Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 273-278 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1750698008093792


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