Why Did Ebbinghaus Use Meaningless Nonsense Syllables to Study Memory

question 128

Multiple Choice

Why did Ebbinghaus use meaningless nonsense syllables to study memory?

• A) He wanted a pure measure of memory unaffected by prior knowledge.
• B) He wanted a novel measure of memory that no one had used before.
• C) He wanted stimuli that could be pronounced and were equivalent in length.
• D) He wanted a measure that could be applied to speakers of different languages.

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