Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...the student sum up his marks and find his percentage of the maximum total (120 marks). Perform a number of similar experiments with different series on succeeding days, and deduce conclusions which will be of service in memory training. A.--Training Reception.--What is the result if we try to remember everything? Which is better, the ability to remember accurately a few important facts, or the power to recall in a hazy, uncertain way an immense number of indiscriminate and unimportant details? Why is it important that anything memorized should be worth remembering? Give examples from Literature, Natural Science and Mathematics. There are certain conditions which, if observed in getting anything into the mind, will enable us to remember it more easily when we wish to recall it than if we had not observed these conditions. Make a list of all such conditions which you have found, to be aids to memory. What is the first experience of your infant life which you remember? Why do you remember this experience and forget subsequent events? Deduce principles for memory training. "If in the process of learning, the facts are properly apperceived, Memory will take care of itself." Explain the meaning of this statement and give examples. 1. Attention.--Show that aids to attention are aids to Memory. Give examples where you have forgotten: (a) Because you were not interested in the subject. (b) Because you did not concentrate your attention vigorously for sufficient time. (c) Because you did not understand what was to be learned. (d) Because you did not relate the new presentation to former knowledge by bringing related facts into the foreground of consciousness. (e) Because you had not formed the habit of memorizing. (/) Because your health...