These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
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 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
