PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Free University Of Berlin, Jamaat-E-Islami Hind

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Our recognition memory is impressively quick and vast. Is your friend wearing a new or old outfit? old. is this five-second movie clip from a film you"ve ever seen? yes. Ebbinghaus (1850 1909) showed this more than a century ago, using nonsense syllables. He randomly selected a sample of syllables, practiced them, and tested himself. To get a feel for his experiments, rapidly read aloud, eight times over, the following list, then look away and try to recall the items: jih, baz, fub, yox, suj, xir, Dax, leq, vum, pid, kel, wav, tuv, zof, gek, hiw. The day after learning such a list, ebbinghaus could recall few of the syllables. The more frequently he repeated the list aloud on day 1, the less time he required to relearn the list on day 2. Additional rehearsal (overlearning) of verbal information increases retention, especially when practice is distributed over time.