Ebbinghaus chose to use rote learning, memorization by mechanical repetition, to perform the task. To start the experiment Ebbinghaus began to read a list, reading each item one at a time until he was finished. Using the standard performance he began to read through the list in the same order over and over again, until he was able to recite the list in the correct order. After memorizing the list, Ebbinghaus then began to divert his attention to other lists memorizing them. Ebbinghaus measured his memory by seeing how many trials it took him to relearn the original list. If he needed fewer trials to relearn it than he had needed to learn it initially; information had been saved from his original study. Using savings as his measure, Ebbinghaus recorded the degree of memory remembered after different intervals. He found a quick initial loss of memory, followed by a gradually declining rate of loss. After Ebbighaus research, psychologists studied verbal learning for many decades by observing participants attempting to learn and recall nonsense syllables. By studying memory in as pure a

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