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Psychology Coursework Introduction During the period of the 1950’s the need to understand and gain knowledge about Cognitive Psychology grew. Many questions were asked concerning cognitive abilities, which could not be explained within the behavioural field of psychology. Therefore more psychologists were eager to investigate the cognitive mind. However the main pioneer was Ebbinghaus (1885). Ebbinghaus was fascinated with cognitive psychology, but most of all he wanted to explore how long it would take for information to be forgotten from an individual’s memory. In addition he carried out an experiment to test this. His procedure involved using nonsense three letter syllables for example “TUD”. He studied these syllables and afterwards tried to recall them to the best of his ability by memory. He recorded his results and then repeated this procedure until his recall was 100% (he was able to recall all of the nonsense syllables”. Ebbinghaus’ results showed that if he tested himself after a short period of time his recall was good, but this decreased as the retention interval (the time between learning and recall) increased. There was a large increase in forgetting over the first hour after learning, after which forgetting increased more slowly. In conclusion Ebbinghaus stated that his weak performance at the start of the experiment was due to the loss of information from the Short Term Memory (STM), but as he continued to study the syllables the information was transferred and forgotten through a more of a Long Term Memory (LTM) store.
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