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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve. He was the father of the eminent neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus. Read full biography of Hermann Ebbinghaus → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse... → 0 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... → 0 Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. 0 Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have... → 0 Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other... → 0 A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is... → 0 Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they... → 0 The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. 0 Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater... → 0 On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an... → 0 The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which... → 0 No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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