Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghauswas a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve. He was the father of the eminent neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth24 January 1850
CountryGermany
information individual grows
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
morning school night
The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
years return consciousness
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.
heart talking forgotten
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.
numbers safe repetition
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.
teaching learning technology
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.
events said passive
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
greek training may
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.
calls hearing learning muscle organs sensory three
The learning of the syllables calls into play the three sensory fields, sight, hearing and the muscle sense of the organs of speech.
again altogether force himself impress knows rules
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
past long psychology
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.