Ebbing House's Memory Research Methodology

Ebbing house was published in germany 18 85, wasn't translated tol 19 13. It came a bit later in the english speaking world. But let's focus on on what he actually did here to i to tell us about the experiments. He rather cleverly went for nonsense syllables. This is still a technique used in memory research to day. And so it goes for three or four low case letter s in inrows on paper,. And then he, i mean, th people criticise him for having done the experiments on himself but he did, did these experiments for seven months, during three sessions a day. As this was no light touch experiment, you know.

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