Hermann Ebbinghaus

question 354

Multiple Choice

Hermann Ebbinghaus:

• A) was both the experimenter and the only participant in his pioneering research on forgetting.
• B) was the psychologist who discovered that the duration of short-term memory was seven items, plus or minus two.
• C) received the Nobel Prize for his landmark studies describing how the structure and function of neurons change when new memories are formed.
• D) was the physiological psychologist who attempted to find the specific brain location of particular memories.

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