Hermann Ebbinghaus

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent;…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation),…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series,…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus