All Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes
- Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied… Easily
- Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Acts
- Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. History
- Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the… Activity
- A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort… Able
- Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the… According
- The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. Admit
- Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have… Absolutely
- No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further… Alphabet
- One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but… Act
- Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in… Been
- What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. Alas
- Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,… Act
- Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when… Anew
- The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. Altogether
- 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… Bases
- The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in… Amount
- The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his… Combination
- The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less… Amplification
- 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… All
- 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… Afterward
- 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… Chance