biography
| name: |
Ebbinghaus, Hermann
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pronunciation:
[aybinghows]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1850–1909)
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| biography:
| Experimental psychologist, born in Barmen, W Germany. He taught at Berlin, and became professor at Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia) (1894–1905), then at Halle. He is best remembered for Über das Gedächtnis (1885, On Memory), which first applied experimental methods to memory research, and which introduced the nonsense syllable as a standard stimulus for such work. |
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