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Ebbinghaus Hermann. . 1850--1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In 1885, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published his groundbreaking article "Uber das Gedchtnis" ("On Memory") in which he described experiments he conducted on himself to describe the process of forgetting. It was advanced as early as 1885 by Ebbinghaus who, based on primitive experiments, concluded that learning material without meaningful context required ten times the effort of learning meaningful material On 8 September 1939, a platoon of German raiders of the Ebbinghaus group clad in Polish officer uniforms joined a column of retreating soldiers and after a two-day march they reached a strategic bridge in the town of Denblin. |
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