Abstract:The psychology of learning has been dominated by the concept of associationism, with its explanatory principle of contiguity, and by the concepts of animal learning with its explanatory principle of the conditioned reflex. Ebbinghaus, 11 who is the father of experimental investigations of learning as well of the higher thought processes, accepted the concepts of associationism and worked out his experiments on their foundation. For him learning was essentially an activity of memorizing descrete units of verbal… Show more
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