What Did Hermann Ebbinghaus Discover with the Forgetting Curve

question 177

Multiple Choice

What did Hermann Ebbinghaus discover with the forgetting curve?

• A) It had been previously discovered by in 1776.
• B) Most forgetting occurs soon after learning.
• C) As time goes on, people lose more and more additional information from memory.
• D) There is a negative linear relationship between recall and the passage of time.

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