Hermann ebbinghaus brief biography of james bond

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850—1909; Figure 7.2), an inventive, ingenious experimenter, was not directly associated with any particular school. He became the equivalent of an associate professor at Berlin, but when Stumpf was brought in over his head as professor, Berlin held no future for him, so he left for Breslau.

Ebbinghaus wrote a widely used Outline of Psychology, the style of which has been compared to that of William James’s book Principles of Psychology, famous for its felicitous writing. Ebbinghaus was also the first to publish a paper on the intelligence testing of school-children, proposing a completion task that is still included in some current test batteries.This work, later taken up by Alfred Binet,Theophile Simon, and others, was to burgeon into the vast mental testing movement in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.

In 1890 Ebbinghaus, with Arthur König, founded a new journal on the psychology and physiology of the sense organs, which