"Humans more easily remember or learn items when……" — 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 studied repeatedly in a short period of time."
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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22 Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus has 22 quotes on this site.
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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
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Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
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Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is…
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A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it…
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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly…
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
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Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then…
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to…
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be…
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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do…
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What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
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Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act…
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