The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by … - Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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.

Amplification, English, Heart, Needs, Repetitions, Series

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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

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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.

Alphabet, Condition, Greek, May, Person, Training

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Events, Mental Health, Said, Acts, Mental

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

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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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