When Ebbinghaus compared the speed of memorizing lists of nonsense syllables versus stanzas of a poem he found that ____
a. ?meaningless material is nine times harder to learn than meaningful material
b. ?Byron's poem, "Don Juan," was so uninteresting that stanzas from took longer to learn than did lists of syllables
c. ?each stanza had 80 syllables, requiring 80 repetitions while it required 9 readings to memorize 80 syllables from the meaningless list
d. ?it is possible to construct an association-free syllable
e. ?it is not possible to construct an association-free syllable
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a. the gender of the participants b. the items on the questionnaire c. the operational definition of "friend" d. the year in which the questionnaire was distributed
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a. ?too much habituation b. ?not enough habituation c. ?an inability to dishabituate d. ?a lack of neural activity in the brain
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