Hermann Ebbinghaus Measured Forgetting By

question 83

Multiple Choice

Hermann Ebbinghaus measured forgetting by:

• A) measuring how long it took him to relearn a previously learned list.
• B) measuring how long it took him to learn a list perfectly.
• C) seeing how long a list he could remember after hearing the list just once.
• D) counting the number of times he needed to hear a list before he could recall it perfectly.

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