According to Ebbinghaus, forgetting is

a. almost complete within two days with 90 percent of the information totally forgotten.
b. rapid at first and then followed by a slow decline.
c. slow at first and then followed by a rapid decline within 30 days.
d. characterized by a slow, steady decline from the moment the information is encountered.


ANSWER: b

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