Sometimes long-term memory storage has been described as creating a path such as in a field of grass. using the field analogy, forgetting would occur when the path begins to disappear due to lack of use. this describes the ____ theory of forgetting.
Decay theory is the idea that when you don't use a memory, you begin to lose it (as in the cliche "You don't use it, you lose it"). The memory starts to decay to nothingness from lack of use.
