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Jost's laws  

Definition

  • Laws formulated by Adolf Jost (1874-1908) in 1897. If two memory traces have the same strength, 1) repetition of the older trace will strengthen it more than repetition of the newer trace, and 2) the older trace will deteriorate less quickly than the newer trace.

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Synonym(s)

  • Jost’s first law
  • Jost’s first memory law
  • Jost's memory laws
  • Jost’s second law
  • Jost’s second memory law

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Jost, A. (1897). Die Assoziationsfestigkeit in ihrer Abhängigkeit von der Verteilung der Wiederholungen. Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane, 14, 436-472.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Wixted, J. T. (2004). On common ground: Jost’s (1897) law of forgetting and Ribot’s (1881) law of retrograde amnesia. Psychological Review, 111(4), 864–879. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.864

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

In other languages

  • lois de Jost

    French

  • lois de la mémoire de Jost
  • première loi de Jost
  • première loi de la mémoire de Jost
  • seconde loi de Jost
  • seconde loi de la mémoire de Jost

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-M1QJM17D-7

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