HIST10014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Short-Term Memory, Computer Data Storage
6 Aug 2018
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How many phases of a memory are there. Some people have a good ability to capture facts and events in memory whereas others have less such ability. Scienti c study of memory is usually traced back to him (1885/1913 translation) Examined his own acquisition and forgetting of new information. In the form of series of nonsense syllables tested at various periods up to 31 days. Ebbinghaus noticed that he often had a rst eeting grasp of the series in moments of. But that this immediate memory did not ensure that the series had been special concentration memorised in a way that would allow its recall later on. Soon afterward, james (1890) proposed a distinction between. Stable memorisation sometimes required further repetitions of the series. the small amount of information held as the trailing edge of the conscious present primary memory (now stm) secondary memory (now ltm)
