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Ebbinghaus

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/ ˈɛbɪŋhaʊs /

noun

  1. Hermann. (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables

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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

“Recalcitrant, stupid, uninhibited,” said Ebbinghaus, acknowledging her native Germany gave the world Oktoberfest.

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

Bobertag throws out the test entirely and substitutes a completion test modeled after that of Ebbinghaus.

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