1880 年代,赫曼・艾賓浩斯(Hermann Ebbinghaus)背了一批無意義音節表,並測量在不同間隔之後重新學會它們能快多少,成果在 1885 年以 Über das Gedächtnis(《論記憶》)出版。遺忘一開始很快,之後逐漸變慢。Murre 和 Dros 在 2015 年重做了這項實驗,得到非常相似的曲線。給學生的啟示並不是遺忘不好,而是複習最好安排在記憶開始變淡的時候。
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