​When Ebbinghaus Compared the Speed of Memorizing Lists of Nonsense

question 62

Multiple Choice

​When Ebbinghaus compared the speed of memorizing lists of nonsense syllables versus stanzas of a poem he found that ____.

• A)​meaningless material is nine times harder to learn than meaningful material
• B)Byron's poem,"Don Juan," was so uninteresting that stanzas from took longer to learn than did lists of syllables
• C)​each stanza had 80 syllables,requiring 80 repetitions while it required 9 readings to memorize 80 syllables from the meaningless list
• D)it is possible to construct an association-free syllable
• E)it is not possible to construct an association-free syllable

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