"One needs but to say that, in 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 one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased"
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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22 Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time…
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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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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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