APFCC+-+Ebbinghaus

APFCC: Ebbinghaus

 * Theorist ** : Ebbinghaus
 * Study of ** : Forgetting Curve
 * Year ** :


 * Summary: **

To study the relationship between time and forgetting
 * Aim: **

Used himself as a participant. He taught himself non-sense syllables. He then tested himself at set time intervals and determined how many he had forgotten.
 * Procedures: **

He found that most forgetting occurred with in 20 minutes, he developed a graph of this forgetting, this was called the Forgetting Curve. He concluded that most of the forgetting occurred inside the first 20 minutes after learning. He also found that he performed as well at remembering the items after a month as he did one week, suggesting that most forgetting is done in the time immediately after the initial learning.
 * Findings: **

He concluded that the number of repetitions of the list was important in how well the syllables were learnt.
 * Conclusions: **


 * Criticisms: **
 * 1) He studied himself, this was a self test, he could have influenced the results
 * 2) He didn’t repeat his study, this was a once of test
 * 3) He used nonsensical syllables that thus have little ecological validity.
 * 4) There is no way of knowing that he spent the same amount of time on each of the syllables.