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
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.
psychology alas
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
aim carried impress means repeated separate series syllable tests
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.