Section 09

How We Know

The methods came first. These entries cover the self-experiment that founded quantitative memory research and the model of information held in mind that structured the century after it.

Entries in this section

2 of the register’s 21 entries.

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The self-experimentEbbinghaus was his own subject, which is both the strength and the limit of the work.Method note
Working memoryAlan Baddeley's model, what it explains, and what it was never meant to.Robust, bounded

Other sections

Retrieval

Testing as a learning event.

Spacing

Why distributed beats massed.

Interleaving

Mixing problem types.

Cognitive Load

What working memory is competing for.