Who Conducted the First Experimental Studies on Learning and Memory

question 142

Multiple Choice

Who conducted the first experimental studies on learning and memory in the late nineteenth century?

• A) Wilhelm Wundt
• B) Sigmund Freud
• C) William James
• D) Hermann Ebbinghaus

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