PSYCH 140M Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psych
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Two approaches to the scientific study of memory. Approach isolate small features or functions of memory system. Carry out very precise, controlled experiments on them. Example: retention of lists of nonsense material. Excluding effects of meaning is excluding most important feature of human memory! Test subjects recall of pictures and stories. After delays of various times (15 min several years), subjects would try to rewrite it as accurately as possible. One night two young men from egulac went down to the river to hunt seals, and while they were there it became foggy and calm. Then they heard war-cries, and they thought: "maybe this is a war-party. " They escaped to the shore, and hid behind a log. Now canoes came up, and they heard the noise of paddles, and saw one canoe coming up to them. There were five men in the canoe, and they said: We are going up the river to make war on the people.
