ABSTRACT
Having discussed how exaggerated forgetting may be induced by a variety of abnormal physiological or behavioral circumstances, we may now analyze this forgetting through experiments that have placed the abnormal circumstances under precise experimental control. The analytical advantages of this are obvious, and there are two general goals of this approach. Of relatively less concern has been the goal of simulating the circumstances leading to clinical cases of deficient memory processing, which might be useful in understanding the basis of applied diagnostic and medical approaches. This is the minor goal because it seems premature until we have a better understanding of how memories are processed. The major interest, therefore, is to analyze memory processing experimentally under abnormal circumstances in order to understand it under normal circumstances, a widely applied scientific strategy.
