Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Memory and Learning: The Ebbinghaus Centennial Conference
by David S. Gorfein, Robert R. Hoffman. 444 pgs.

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Preface

I INTRODUCTION

1: Introduction

II HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

2: One Hundred Years of Memory Theory

3: Memory Before Ebbinghaus

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

4: Some Historical Observations on Ebbinghaus

5: Ebbinghaus' On Memory: Some Effects on Early American Research

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

6: The Winds of Doctrine: Ebbinghaus and His Reputation in America

III CONTEXT AND MEMORY

7: The Law of Frequency

CONCLUDING STATEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8: Comments on Chapter 7 by Slamecka

9: The Dual Meanings of Context: Implications for Research, Theory, and Applications

10: Explaining Context Effects on Short-Term Memory

11: Temporal Context and Recency

12: The Context of Remembering: Comments on the Chapters by Glenberg, Gorfein, and Wickens

IV SEMANTIC MEMORY

13: Beyond Associations: Strategic Components in Memory Retrieval

14: Relation Element Theory: A New Account of the Representation and Processing of Semantic Relations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

15: Beyond Associationism: Comments on the Chapters by Reder and by Chaffin and Herrmann

16: What is Conscious in the Control of Action? A Modern Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Control

17: Comments on the Chapters by Baars and Ceraso

V TOPICS IN MEMORY RESEARCH

18: Serial-Order Effects in a Distributed-Memory Model

19: Discussion of the Chapter by Murdock

20: On Generic Recall

21: Comments on the Chapter by Ceraso

22: Criteria for the Identification of Memory Deficits: Implications for the Design of Memory Tests

23: Comments on the Chapter by Buschke

24: Retrieval Modes Produce Dissociations in Memory for Surface Information

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

25: Functional Dissociation: Comments on the Chapter by Roediger and Blaxton

VI OVERVIEW

26: Functional and Cognitive Memory Theory: An Overview of Some Key Issues

References

Author Index

Subject Index
2 .

The Psychology of Memory (Chap. 1 "The Ebbinghaus Tradition and Bartlett Approach")
by Alan D. Baddeley. 430 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1: The Ebbinghaus Tradition and the Bartlett Approach

Chapter 2: The Limits of Memory: Input Limitations

Chapter 3: The Limits of Memory

Chapter 4: The Limits of Memory

Chapter 5: Associative Interference Theory

Chapter 6: How Many Kinds of Memory? the Two-Component View

Chapter 7: Short-Term Memory

Chapter 8: Working Memory

Chapter 9: Visual Memory

Chapter 10: Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile, and Olfactory Memory

Chapter 11: Organization and Retrieval from Long-Term Memory

Chapter 12: Memory for Prose: Similarity, Redundancy, and Syntax

Chapter 13: Semantic Memory

Chapter 14: Supernormal Memory

Chapter 15: Where Do We Go from Here?

References

Index
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A Hundred Years of Psychology, 1833-1933 (Chap. X "The Development of Experimental Psychology: Ebbinghaus and G. E. Muller")
by J. C. Flugel. 386 pgs.

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Chapter II: Systematic Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century--Thomas Brown, James Mill, Beneke

Chapter III: Phrenology

Chapter IV Early Physiological Psychology

Chapter V: Sensation and the Sense Organs

Chapter VI: Mesmerism and Abnormal Psychology

Part II: 1833-186o

Chapter II: Systematic Psychology--J. S. Mill., Bain, Lotze

Chapter III: Physiological Psychology--J. MÜller, Helmholtz, Weber, Fechner

Chapter IV: Hypnotism and Abnormal Psychology--Elliotson, Esdaile, Braid

Part III: 1860-1900

Chapter II: The Beginnings of Animal Psychology

Chapter III: Galton and the Study of the Individual

Chapter IV: Child Psychology and Social Psychology

Chapter V: Systematic Psychology--The Great Textbooks, Brentano to James

Chapter VI: Fechner and Psycho-Physics

Chapter VII: Helmholtz and the Study of Sensation

Chapter VIII: Wundt and the Beginning of Experimental Psychology At Leipzig

Chapter IX: Further Studies in Sensation

Chapter X: The Development of Experimental Psychology--

Chapter XI: The Expansion of Psychology--Wundt's Pupils In Europe and America

Chapter XII: France and the Development of Abnormal Psychology

Chapter XIII: Physiological Psychology

Part IV: 1900-1933

Chapter II: "Structural" and "Functional" Psychology

Chapter III: The Experimental Study of Thought and Will-- KÜlpe and the WÜrzburg School

Chapter V: Behaviourism and Animal Psychology--Bechterev, Pavlov, Watson

Chapter VIII: Freud and Psycho-Analysis

Chapter IX: Adler, Jung and "Type" Psychology

Chapter X: The Development of Mental Tests

Chapter XI: Spearman and the "Factor" School

Chapter XII: Sensation

Chapter XIII: Psychology in Relation to Sociology and Anthropology

Chapter XIV: Psychology and Education

Chapter XV: Psychology and Industry

Chapter XVI: Conclusion--The Present Position of Psychology

Chronological Table of Some Major Events in The History of Modern Psychology

Subject Index

Index
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Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology (Chap. 4 "Hermann Ebbinghaus: On the Road to Progress or Down the Garden Path?")
by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael C. Wertheimer. 368 pgs.

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Preface

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Portraits of the Authors and Editors

Chapter 1 Laurens Perseus Hickok: Philosopher, Theologian, and Psychologist

Chapter 2 Charles Darwin: Father of Evolutionary Psychology

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Chapter 3 Leipzig, Wilhelm Wundt, and Psychology's Gilded Age

Chapter 4 Hermann Ebbinghaus: on the Road to Progress or Down the Garden Path?

Introduction: Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Conclusion: Chairperson's Closing Remarks

Chapter 5 Alfred Binet, General Psychologist

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Chapter 6 L. L. Thurstone's Vision of Psychology as a Quantitative Rational Science1

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Chapter 7 Kurt Lewin: His Psychology and a Daughter's Recollections

Chapter 8 Floyd Henry Allport: Founder of Social Psychology as a Behavioral Science

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Chapter 9 the Legacy of Jean Piaget

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Chapter 10 Karl Duncker: Productive Problems with Beautiful Solutions

Acknowledgments

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Chapter 11 Milton Erickson: Scientist, Hypnotist, Healer

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Chapter 12 Zing-Yang Kuo: Radical Scientific Philosopher and Innovative Experimentalist

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Chapter 13 Myrtle Mcgraw: Pioneer in Neurobehavioral Development

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Chapter 14 Henry W. Nissen: Quiet Comparative Psychologist

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Chapter 15 Carl Rogers and the Culture of Psychotherapy

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Chapter 16 Burrhus Frederick Skinner: the Contingencies of a Life1

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Chapter 17 Kenneth W. Spence: Theorist with an Empiricist Conscience

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Chapter 18 David Krech: Scientist and Social Activist

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Chapter 19 Benton J. Underwood: a Tribute of Memories

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Chapter 20 Leon Festinger: Beyond the Obvious

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Topics in the History of Psychology Vol. 1 (Section on Hermann Ebbinghaus in Chap. 3 "Human Learning and Memory")
by Gregory A. Kimble, Kurt Schlesinger. 414 pgs.

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Contents of Volume 2

Preface

A Brief Introduction to a History of Psychology

REFERENCES

2 Conditioning and Learning

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3 Human Learning and Memory

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4 Comparative Psychology And Ethology

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5 Sensory Processes: Vision

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6 Taste And Olfaction

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7 A History Of Perception

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8 A History of the Study of the Cortex: Changes in the Concept of the Sensory Pathway

INTRODUCTION

REFERENCES

Name Index

Subject Index
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Organizing and Memorizing: Studies in the Psychology of Learning and Teaching (Discussion of Hermann Ebbinghaus in Chap. VI "Forgetting and the Effect of Repetition")
by George Katona. 324 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

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Chapter I: The Field of Research

Chapter II: Experiments on Two Processes of Learning

Chapter III: Introduction to the Problem of Transfer of Training

Chapter IV: Experiments concerning Transfer of Training

Chapter V: Theory of Transfer of Training

Chapter VI: Forgetting and the Effect of Repetition

Chapter VII: Grouping and Learning

Chapter VIII: Memory Traces

Chapter IX: Retention of Principles and Facts

Chapter X: The Prototype of Learning

Conclusion: Educational Implications

Appendices

Bibliography

Index
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Systems and Theories of Psychology ("Ebbinghaus and the Experimental Study of Memory" begins on p. 179)
by J. P. Chaplin, T. S. Krawiec. 480 pgs.

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Preface

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List of Figures

List of Tables

I: The Evolution of the Scientific Method in Psychology

Introduction

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II: The Scientific Method (Cont'D)

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III: Sensation in Systematic Psychology

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IV: Perception: the Classical Heritage

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V: Perception: Contemporary Trends

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VI: Learning: the Classical Heritage

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VII: Learning: Contemporary Trends

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VIII: Thinking

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IX: Motivation

Summary and Evaluation

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X: Feeling and Emotion

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XI: Quantitative Psychology

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XII: Personality

Summary and Evaluation

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XIII: Epilogue

Indices
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Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
by Leonard Zusne. 568 pgs.

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"Recommended for collections strong in the area of biographical reference." Library Journal

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Appendix A: Chronological Listing by Birth Date

Appendix B: Relative Eminence of Names in the History of Psychology

Appendix C: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Contributors in Academic and Research Institutions, Geographically and Chronologically Arranged

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