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Hermann Ebbinghaus
 
Date of birth: 1850
Date of death: 1909
Country Of Origin: Germany
Profession:

Psychologist

Biography:
    Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) was a Germany psychologist who pioneered experimental study of memory, and discovered the forgetting curve and the learning curve. Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen. At age 17, he entered the University of Bonn. His first and foremost interest was psychology. His studies were interrupted in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War. He enlisted in the Prussian army. He resumed his studies and received a Ph.D. in 1873. In 1885, he published his groundbr .... (More...)
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" A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" If the first committing to memory is a very careful and long continued one, the difference will be greater than if it is desultory and soon abandoned. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" It is naturally not conceivable that by a mere caprice of nature the validity of the principles discovered should be limited exclusively to the character of the material in which they were obtained - i.e., to series of nonsense syllables. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" On each day the average number of repetitions necessary for the committing of a given series is less than on the preceding day. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. "

Hermann Ebbinghaus
" Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. "

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