examples:
what?
nonsense syllables are
meaningless sets of two
consonants with a
vowel switched in between. first used by Hermann Ebbinghaus, a
German psychologist, they are used to
study memory and
forgetting.
remembering nonsense syllables relies on simple
acoustic coding and maintenance
rehearsal rather than on
elaborative rehearsal, semantic coding, or other ways of making
learning meaningful (Psychology in the New Millenium, p. 272). these syllables help to measure
memorization in studies of the three basic memory tasks of
recognition,
recall, and
relearning. these studies have led to many
conclusions on the nature of
forgetting.