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Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German Psychologist
Born: Jan 24, 1850
Died: Feb 26, 1909
Been Consciousness Heart Together Which Will
Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Erich Fromm Jordan Peterson Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer
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 training. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Training Matter Will Backwards Thoroughly Further Never He Alphabet Learned Without How Repeat Condition Greek Person May
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. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Needs Increased Increasing Seven One Act Say About Case Only Frequent Repetition Familiarity Gradually May Unfamiliar Capacity Act Sequence Grasped Series Consciousness Syllables
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Time Feelings Every States Kind One Time Mental Absolutely Disappearance Disappeared Ideas Were Exist Sensations Which Then Present Consciousness
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Events Mental Said Passive Subject Happenings Acts
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Together Mind Other Immediate Ease Mutually Direction Proportional Developed Simultaneously Ideas Greater Frequency Were Been Same Reproduce Which Succession Certainty Original Each
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Change Degree Example Perception Other Constantly Given Directions For Example Ideas Greater Occurs Stimuli According Accuracy Interest Certainly Less External
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 can be recited. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Heart Must Anew Similar Learned Been Conditions Times Forgotten Which Series Inner Syllables
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Other Detailed Mutually Individual Through Command His Same Dependent Information Which Theoretical Each Grow Amount
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Events Flux Constant Admit Mental Conditions Stable Establishment Experimental Caprice
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
Day Needs Learning Heart First Half Relation Learned Were Repeating Repetitions Than Shortest Less English Series Amplification Syllable Necessary
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 morning. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Morning Impress Rules Must Force Himself Learn Knows Altogether His Again Them Night
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Time Together Several Drawn Out About Construct Material Test Were Mixed Different Which Formed Then Used Series Each Each Time Syllables Chance Number

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