Core Assessment PS404

PS404 Lydia Breckenridge

Hermann Ebbinghaus & the History of Memory Research

Core Assessment

Historical Timeline

Ancient Greece: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

470-322 BCE

The "Age of Antiquity"

Ancient Greece

The Advancement of Learning De Augmentis Scientiarum

Sir Francis Bacon

1561-1626

The Middle Ages, The Renaissance

1500s-1600s

Observations on Man

1705-1757

David Hartley

The Age of Enlightenment

1700s

1801-1889

Gustav Fechner

The 19th Century "The Victorian Era"

1800s

He pioneered the experimental study of memory.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

1850-1909

The Progressive Era

Late 1800s -Early 1900s

1850-1934

G. E. Müller, Wilhelm Wundt

1920s-1940s

From the Roaring 20s through the Great Depression & into the War Years

Frederick C. Bartlett, Karl Lashley, Donald O. Hebb, Wilder Penfield

1886-1969

A time of significant change.

1940s-1960s

Atkinson/Shiffrin, Craik/Lockhart, Endel Tulving

1968-1980s

1970s-1980s

Social & cultural change.

Dr. Loftus is well known for her work on human memory, and most notably on false memories.

Elizabeth Loftus

1990s-2000s

Rises in tech, civil rights, & liberalism.

1980s-2000s

Tulving & Loftus cont. with integration from technology.

2000-Now

2000s-Now

Continuous growth in tech allows for mass communication & knowledge sharing.

• Goodwin, C. J. (2022). A History of Modern Psychology (6th ed.). Wiley Global Education US. https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781119779278
• The study of Human memory: Cognitive psychology & neuroscience. The Human Memory. (2022, May 20). https://human-memory.net/the-study-of-human-memory/
• Thomson, H. (2020, May 12). Memory: A timeline of discoveries. BBC Science Focus Magazine. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/memory-a-timeline-of-discoveries
• Waude, A. (2016, December 21). 10 influential memory theories and studies in psychology. Psychologist World. https://www.psychologistworld.com/memory/influential-memory-psychology-studies-experiments

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