Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
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… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it,… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
