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Memory Criticism N/A Herman Ebbinghaus Training University Bonn

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Training: University of Bonn PhD; believed objective measures like Fechner’s could be developed for higher mental processes; carried out memory experiments with himself as subject

Accomplishments:  

1st cognitive psychologist
nonsense syllables to study memory: used for generations by psychologists
memory retention
introduced concepts of mean and variability, probable error

Criticism of others: N/A
Criticism by others: N/A
Systems: Psychophysics

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