Hermann Vonn Ebbinghaus

Hermann Vonn Ebbinghaus is an experimental psychologist in Germany. He was born on 24th January 1850 as a son of a businessman of Luther in Berman, Germany. At the age of 17, he began studying philosophy and history at Bonn University from 1867 to 1870. He later received a doctorate. In 1873, after the Prussian army took over the administration, it returned to philosophy. Ebbinghaus taught and started learning about the continent of Africa. During the trip he met with a copy of psychophysics at Gustav Theodor Fechner.

This famous "oblivion curve" was originally developed by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus at the end of the 19th century. It represents the speed at which he forgets the meaningless combination of letters. Ebbinghaus noticed that he had forgotten most of what he had learned and soon realized that he had forgotten it - the curve became very steep in the first few hours. His oblivion curve has been validated in many subsequent experiments. Because students forget so soon, I am always interested in the half-life of my class. When I met my former students, I often asked what they remembered from the class. In most cases, my students talk about my house (I attend classes at least once in every semester), or I remember the poem (sometimes they can still recite it)

The first person to study forgetful behavior in an experimental and scientific way was Hermann Ebbinghaus. In his epoch-making study he studied his own memory and forgot the pointless three-letter words. Examples of these words are KAF or WID. Words meaningful or simple words of well-known words are excluded. (See Ebbinghaus memory experiment for details). Therefore, the difference in learning ability comes from the difference in learning behavior. Some people can convert this information into a memory expression suitable for me (eg, audio-oriented learner or visually-oriented learner). In addition, some people naturally have the ability to use memory hooks and other mnemonics to facilitate the storage and association of information.

In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus published a book called "Memory." This book opens a way to further study memory. Prior to Ebbinghaus, philosophers had only speculative discussions about memory. Plato (427 - 347 BC) thought that "the heart is a wax that can be printed with a sensory experience." Aristotle says, "We remember things through adjacency, similarity, and contrast, we believe that further experience is spread by blood and that memory is preserved in our minds"