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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

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Hermann Ebbinghaus
Age: 59 †
Born: 1850
Born: January 24
Died: 1909
Died: February 26
Pedagogue
Psychologist
University Teacher
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
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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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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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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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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
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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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Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
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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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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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