Who carried out the first systematic exploration of memory in 1885 using nonsense syllables?
AAtkinson and Shiffrin in their stage model
BHermann Ebbinghaus in his self-experiments
CCraik and Lockhart in their depth study
DBaddeley in his multi-component model
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Hermann Ebbinghaus in his self-experiments
1. The chapter introduces the history of memory research as spanning over a hundred years.
2. It credits the first systematic exploration to a German psychologist of the late nineteenth century.
3. That psychologist is named as Hermann Ebbinghaus and the year given is 1885.
4. Ebbinghaus memorised lists of nonsense syllables (CVC trigrams) on himself.
5. Hence the first systematic memory researcher is Hermann Ebbinghaus.
_Source: NCERT Class 11 Psychology Ch 6 "Human Memory", p. 96, Introduction_
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