German psychologist, one of the founders of experimental research on memory.
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BirthplaceBarmen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionTesting his own memory for nonsense syllables between 1880 and 1885, plotted the forgetting curve describing how newly learned material is lost rapidly at first and then more slowly over time. 2 Notable WorkUber das Gedächtnis (1885; translated as Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology) 1 Connections
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The size-contrast illusion is named for and credited to Hermann Ebbinghaus.
His pioneering forgetting-curve research quantified overlearning in terms of the extra repetitions needed to reach full recall accuracy.
First studied the serial-position effect, of which the primacy effect is one half.
First studied the serial-position effect, of which the recency effect is the other half.
The effect is named for Ebbinghaus's pioneering self-experimentation on memory.
Ebbinghaus's own memory experiments first demonstrated that learning distributed over time produces better retention than massed practice.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory.
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Halle, German Empire
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was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory
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In 1885, he published his groundbreaking Über das Gedächtnis ("On Memory", later translated to English as Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology) in which he described experiments he conducted on himself to describe the processes of learning and forgetting.
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Ebbinghaus's experiment has significantly contributed to experimental psychology. He was the first to carry out a series of well-designed experiments on the subject of forgetting.
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