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• Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation),…
• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
• Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
• Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less…
• A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been…
• Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other…
• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared…
• No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it…
• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in…
• Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with…
• What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

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