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Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

Psychology; An Elementary Text-Book

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but kn...

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

Psychologist

Born: 1850-01-24

Died: 1909-02-26

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. He was the father of the eminent neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus.More