Prospects for the Development of a Psychological Theory of Learning
@article{Venda1982ProspectsFT,
title={Prospects for the Development of a Psychological Theory of Learning},
author={Valery F. Venda},
journal={Journal of Russian and East European Psychology},
year={1982},
volume={20},
pages={52-78},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146984778}
}The problem of learning is traditionally regarded as one of the central problems of psychology. A study of the psychological aspects of this problem was begun by H. Ebbinghaus in 1885 on the basis of word memorization and forgetting. Numerous experiments enabled Ebbinghaus to discover a monotonic exponential law of decrease in the number of words retained in memory [13].
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