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Record 1 1999-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Educational Psychology
DEF

meaningless short syllables invented by Ebbinghaus for the study of learning and memory: e.g., dom, zik, ral.

CONT

At one end of the scale is the task psychologists sometimes set for their subjects - the learning of nonsense syllables. To memorize such items as baz, ent, nep, arl, lud, and the like, is a difficult task. Because there is no meaning involved, these syllables are not easy to learn and are likely to be forgotten quickly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie scolaire

Spanish

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