Nonsense syllable

KVK KVK trigrams or combinations are primarily in the psychology of learning and memory tests used in letter strings consisting of a consonant, a vowel and another consonant (KVK ). They were first used in 1885 by the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. Ebbinghaus arranged different trigrams happen to have a definite answer to, thus making learning lists that he began to study his own ability to learn. KVK trigrams are the main reason for the investigation of learning outcomes appropriate because it is so-called poor sense syllables that have no meaning. This is to ensure that a test subject in an experiment or a memory test be no or only a weak association to a trigram, and all trigrams and their answers are the same easy to learn in a learning list. Interference that may result from an existing association should be turned off. Hermann Ebbinghaus already realized, however, that it is not reasonable to completely poor syllables at KVK trigrams. Therefore, they may differ in terms of their learning curve significantly or be learned differently by different subjects. For example, the trigram MEL could be a subject of flour remember and therefore different can be learned, as for example the trigram XUZ.

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• Marcus Hasselhorn, Differential condition analysis of verbal memory performance in school children, page 21 (PDF file, 4.03 MB )
• Institute of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, General Psychology I: Learning and Memory, page 11 (PDF file, 4.42 MB )

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