A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is ab….

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,….

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, na….

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further trainin….

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject..

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ea….

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true..

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions..

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which ….

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied re….

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an ef….

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other d….

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with ….

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning..

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent rep….

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they g….

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they….

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have….

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history..