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Data were taken from a separate study (Crovitz, Cordoni, Daniel, & Perlman, in press). Young adults (n = 47) used memory diaries to record instances of forgetting that they noticed happened to them in everyday living. The gists of 1,000 consecutive reports of instances of forgetting were determined, and this paper reports the frequency distribution found. A table of the 33 types of forgetting that cover 492 of the 1,000 instances is given. From such lists, sets of reminder cues might be constructed and used in studies of the prevention of forgetting in specific groups (e.g., young vs. old, normal vs. brain-damaged or amnesic).
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This work was supported by the Medical Research Service of the Veterans Administration.
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Crovitz, H.F., Daniel, W.F. Measurements of everyday memory: Toward the prevention of forgetting. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 22, 413–414 (1984). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333861
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