"The relation of repetitions for learning and for……" — 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 less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series."
—
Hermann Ebbinghaus
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
22 Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus has 22 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time…
-
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…
-
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it…
-
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly…
-
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…
-
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to…
-
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be…
-
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do…
-
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
See all 22 quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus »
More Amplification Quotes
This quote is filed under Amplification Quotes,
one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style:…
— Thomas Sprat
-
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By…
— David Tudor
-
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting,…
— Tim Hughes
-
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
— Renee Fleming
-
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and…
— PZ Myers
-
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
— Brownie McGhee
-
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for…
— Adam Gopnik
-
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation;…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a…
— Alan Jay Lerner
-
Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we…
— Mike DeWine
-
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like…
— Francois Hollande
-
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies…
— Manly Hall
See all 20 Amplification Quotes »