Ebbinghaus
Britishnoun
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And Ebbinghaus was deliberately trying to remember those nonsense syllables.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2022
In 1885, the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus sketched the spacing effect’s first outlines through a self-experiment that involved memorizing and forgetting mind-numbingly long lists of nonsensical syllables.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2020
Many were placed in tombs, which may explain why they endured, Ebbinghaus said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2018
“It’s fascinating how these animal-shaped vessels spread from culture to culture around the world. They were really quite fashionable,” Susanne Ebbinghaus, the show’s curator, said in an interview.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2018
Ebbinghaus omits parts of a sentence and requires the subject to supply the omissions.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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