Discuss the significance of Ebbinghaus’s work to the history of psychology.
Hermann Ebbinghaus research has great impact on the psychology’s history. The climax of his research resulted into a monograph known as on memory: an investigation in experimental psychology. This monograph proved to be a turning point in psychology’s history. This was for the first time the study of the processes of the memory as well as learning has conducted.
The processes of the learning and the memory were studied at the moment they occurred. For the first time all the processes were tested experimentally by the Ebbinghaus. The thoroughness of the findings of the Ebbinghaus has the great impact that his findings are still citied in the textbooks of the modern psychology.
Psychologists including Klein, Hoffman, Bamberg and Bringmann concluded that the findings of the Ebbinghaus about the learning and memory are the most valid findings till date. These findings laid the foundation for the upcoming research in the field of psychology on the learning and memory processes.
Principles of psychology written by Ebbinghaus are used as the introductory text of the psychology around the world. Ebbinghaus has given the famous saying that ‘’psychology is consists of a long part, but a very short history.