In Ebbinghhaus's retention curve:
A) the greatest savings occurred with short delays between learning and relearning.
B) most forgetting occurred when relearning took place after about 150 hours.
C) forgetting occurred very gradually over several days.
D) the greatest savings occurred when relearning took place after about 100 hours.

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Ebbinghaus's retention curve demonstrates that memory retention declines over time, but the greatest savings (or least forgetting) occurs with short delays between the initial learning and subsequent relearning sessions. This means that information is more easily relearned soon after it is first learned, indicating that the memory trace is stronger or less decayed at this point.

In Ebbinghhaus's Retention Curve