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Most forgetting takes place within how many hours of seeing or hearing something

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Usually, 24 hours is the window in which someone will forget a piece of information. This is due to the item not being perceived, processed, and encoded in a way that is usable in long-term memory. The person may have considered the information irrelevant or not processed and stored it properly, which can then lead to forgetting it in the future.
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