Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

• 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.

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  Teaching, Learning, Technology

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• Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

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  Past, Long, Psychology

  Summary of Psychology

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

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  Events, Mental Health, Said

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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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.

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  Greek, Training, May

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

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  Psychology, Alas

  Uber die Hartmannsche Philosophie des Unbewussten (1873)

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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.

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  Heart, Years, Effort

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Years, Return, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

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  Events, Caprice, Flux

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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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

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  Needs, May, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Numbers, Safe, Repetition

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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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.

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  Heart, Talking, Forgotten

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Heart, Needs, Amplification

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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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.

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  Memories, Ordinary, Connections

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Ideas, Perception, Degrees

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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.

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  Information, Individual, Command

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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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.

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  Morning, School, Boys

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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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.

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  Writing, Eye, Voice

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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