In the era when Hermann Ebbinghaus began to study human memory, the study of higher psychological processes was very closely aligned with the field of philosophy; introspective self-observation approaches such as those advocated by Edward Titchener and Wilhelm Wundt dominated the field.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spac...
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Hermann Ebbinghaus was the founder of the experimental psychology of memory. He laid the foundation for the scientific study of memory in a monograph titled Über das Gedächtnis (1885), translated into English in 1913 under the title Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.
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The German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) is best known for his innovative contribution to the study of memory through nonsense syllables. Hermann Ebbinghaus was born on Jan. 24, 1850, near Bonn. In 1867 he went to the University of Bonn...
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Hermann Ebbinghaus: Memory (1885; ... Hermann Ebbinghaus: Memory (1885; English 1913) ... 217 Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Über das Gedchtnis. Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot; the English edition is Ebbinghaus, H. (1913). Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.
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In his book, A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, Ebbinghaus offers several advantages to the use of nonsense syllables in the study of memory. He first notes their lack of meaning as well as simplistic and homogenous form.
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Ebbinghaus, Hermann - (b. 1850, Wuppertal, Germany, d. 1909, Halle, Germany, Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Bonn, 1873). In pursuit of his ambition to apply the scientific method to the study of ‘higher’ cognitive processes, Ebbinghaus invented a new method for the study of memory.
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Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology ... Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885) ... Preface; Chapter 1. Our Knowledge Concerning Memory; Chapter 2. The Possibility of Enlarging Our Knowledge of Memory; Chapter 3. The Method of Investigation; Chapter 4. The Utility of the Averages Obtained; Chapter 5. Rapidity of Leraning...
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Of course, we now know that to some extent Ebbinghaus got a bad rap (Gorfein & Hoffman, 1987; Roediger, 1985; Slamecka, 1985; Tulving, 1985). Ebbinghaus had a much broader vision of memory, and a fuller appreciation of the constraints he ... You need only tell any friend, not himself a psychologist, that you study memory.
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