ABSTRACT
A growing number of studies in cognitive, educational and developmental psychology have struggled to have their initial findings replicated. That is what makes studies like this so valuable. The authors of the study conclude with praise for Ebbinghaus by saying that he
set new standards for psychology experiments, already incorporating such ‘modern’ concepts as controlled stimulus, counter-balancing of time of day effects, guarding against optional stopping, statistical data analysis and modelling to find a concise mathematical description and further verify his results. The result was a high-quality forgetting curve that has rightfully remained a classic in the field. Replications, including ours, testify to the soundness of his results.
