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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «PSICHOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «PSYCHOLOGY»
ISSN 2304-1226 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Psychology». 2026. Vol 55

Influence of the Nature of Verbal Meaningful Material on the Volume and Qualitative Specificity of Forgetting (According to the Longitudinal Study)

Author(s)

T. N. Osinina

State University of Humanities and Technology, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russian Federation

Abstract
The article presents indices of forgetting material of various content obtained as a result of 12-year longitudinal study (2009–2020). A part of the text of biological content was least likely to be forgotten if it contained material descriptive in nature: variety of plants of nightshades family, and the homeland and history of the potato spread, and was most likely to be forgotten if it contained information about the structure of plants of the family. In the case of a historical text the information concerned with the battle, the duel of warriors, the victory of Russian army, princes’ nicknames is less susceptible to the forgetting process, while the information about the course of the battle and subsequent events is more susceptible. The forgetting process mostly depends on the specificity of intellect functioning and regulating mechanisms of mnemonic abilities of a person revealing subjective and individual patterns of mnemic processes.
About the Authors
Osinina Tatyana Nikolaevna, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor of the Chair of Pedagogy of Primary and Pre-School Education State University of Humanities and Technology 22, Zelenaya st., Orekhovo-Zuyevo, 142611, Russian Federation e-mail: tatyanaosinina@mail.ru
For citation
Osinina T.N. Influence of the Nature of Verbal Meaningful Material on the Volume and Qualitative Specificity of Forgetting (According to the Longitudinal Study). The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology, 2026, vol. 55, pp. 40-51. https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2026.55.40 (in Russian)
Keywords
память, забывание, качественная специфика забывания, объем забывания, произвольное воспроизведение, лонгитюдный эксперимент, вербальный осмысленный материал.
UDC
159.9.072:159.953.6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2026.55.40
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