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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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January 24, 1850, Barmen, Rhenish Prussia [Germany]
Died:
February 26, 1909, Halle, Germany (aged 59)

Hermann Ebbinghaus (born January 24, 1850, Barmen, Rhenish Prussia [Germany]—died February 26, 1909, Halle, Germany) was a German psychologist who pioneered in the development of experimental methods for the measurement of rote learning and memory. Ebbinghaus received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn in 1873. Shortly thereafter he became assistant professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Berlin, a post he held until 1894, when he was appointed professor at the University of Breslau. Using himself as a subject for observation, Ebbinghaus devised 2,300 three-letter nonsense syllables for measuring the formation of mental associations. This learning invention, together with the ...(100 of 260 words)

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