Capacity Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

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

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

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

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

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), rather than…

— 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, to so…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

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

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

— Hermann Ebbinghaus