CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Also known for his curve of forgetting, which Cornell notes is based off of, this researcher discovered the primacy and recency effect.
A
Hermann Ebbinghaus
B
Noam Chomsky
C
George Sperling
D
Benjamin Whorf
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hermann Ebbinghaus, (born January 24, 1850, Barmen, Rhenish Prussia [Germany]-died February 26, 1909, Halle, Germany), German psychologist who pioneered in the development of experimental methods for the measurement of rote learning and memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Forgetting Curve, or the Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting, is an influential memory model. It shows how learned information slips out of our memories over time – unless we take action to keep it there.

Detailed explanation-4: -Memory experiments Ebbinghaus started by memorizing lists of words and testing how many he could recall. To avoid the use of association, he then created 2, 300 “nonsense syllables”, all three letters long and using the standard word format of consonant-vowel-consonant: for example, “ZUC” and “QAX”.

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