Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus - Page 1

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Long
Past
Psychology
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What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Alas
Psychology
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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Events
Happenings
Mental Health
Passive
Said
Acts
Mental
Subject
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Caprice
Conditions
Constant
Establishment
Events
Flux
Stable
Admit
Experimental
Mental
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The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Morning
Boys
School
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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.
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Force
Impress
Night
Rules
Altogether
Himself
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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 / Psychologist
Alphabet
Backwards
Greek
Matter
May
Training
Condition
Further
Learned
Repeat
Thoroughly
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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 / Psychologist
Conditions
Forgotten
Heart
Series
Syllables
Talking
Anew
Inner
Similar
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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 / Psychologist
Command
Dependent
Individual
Information
Theoretical
Detailed
Mutually
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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Learning
Technology
Long
Teaching
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Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Consciousness
Return
Spontaneity
Years
Apparent
Mental
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Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Alphabet
Eleven
Syllables
Constructed
Placed
Vowel
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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 effect from the greater number of repetitions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Difficulty
Familiar
Greater
Numbers
Repetition
Safe
Basis
Effect
Number
Prophesy
Repetitions
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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 able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Consciousness
Effort
Forgotten
Half
Heart
Recollection
Years
Again
Call
Learned
Suppose
Poem
Repeated
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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 / Psychologist
Series
Syllables
Construct
Drawn
Each Time
Formed
Material
Mixed
Several
Test
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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 / Psychologist
Consciousness
Disappearance
Ideas
Medicine
One Time
Philosophy
Sensations
Mental
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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 / Psychologist
Degrees
Example
Greater
Ideas
Perception
According
External
Constantly
Certainly
Degree
Directions
For Example
Occurs
Stimuli
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The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Aim
Impress
Series
Afterwards
Carried
Immediately
Repeated
Syllable
Voluntarily
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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 / Psychologist
Amplification
Heart
Needs
Relation
Series
Repetitions
Shortest
Syllable
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The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Eye
Inner Voice
Musician
Orchestra
Painter
Study
Voice
Writing
Forms
Combinations
Disadvantage
Gives
Governs
Images
Inner
Presents
Rarely
Sings
Solely
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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 / Psychologist
Consciousness
May
Needs
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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 / Psychologist
Capacity
Consciousness
Familiarity
Repetition
Sequence
Series
Seven
Syllables
Unfamiliar
Frequent
Gradually
Increased
Increasing
One Act
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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, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Activity
Connections
Importance
Memories
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Life Moment Memory
Complications
Connection
Meanwhile
Memory
Necessarily
Namely
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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
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Ideas
Mind
Together
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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 / Psychologist
Certainty
Ease
Frequency
Greater
Ideas
Succession
Together
Original
Developed
Direction
Immediate
Mutually
Proportional
Reproduce
Simultaneously
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