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Which pioneering researcher made extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?
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∙ 12y ago
Learning is affected by prior knowledge, that's why Ebbinghaus in his research used nonsense syllable: ROH, LEZ, SUW, QOV, XAR, KUF, WEP, BIW, CUL, TIX, QAP, WEJ, ZOD. These words were new for him and he had no prior cognitive association.
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Scat
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Because he did not want any verbal association to aid him in remembering he created several lists of nonsense syllables, pronounceable but meaningless. He then graphed these into curve of forgetting - graph showing distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within first hour of learning a list then tapers off gradually
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scat singing
Can you have pronunciation in American accent?
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A nonsense answer is how you behave for example tribution
Is Christianity nonsense?
No it is not nonsense.
