GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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the more times he practiced on Day 1, the less time he required to relearn the syllables on Day 2.
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it did not matter how many times he practiced on Day 1, he still remembered nothing on Day 2.
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after practicing the syllables many times just on Day 1, he remembered most of them one week later.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ebbinghaus experimented with his own ability to remember using a list of nonsense syllables, which he attempted to recall after different lengths of time. His experiences and results revealed a number of key aspects of memory: Memories weaken over time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ebbinghaus chose nonsense syllables over words because he did not want meaning to shade his results. He assumed that meaning-ful stimuli would be more memorable than nonmeaningful stimuli, and he wanted a set of material that did not differ with respect to meaning.
Detailed explanation-3: -Contributions. In 1885, he published his groundbreaking Über das Gedächtnis ("On Memory", later translated to English as Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology) in which he described experiments he conducted on himself to describe the processes of learning and forgetting.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850-February 26, 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. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.