The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

association we could have no memory. Let us see in a simple illustration how association works in recall. Supp ...

between them for the current to discharge between them, granting that the first experience made sufficient im ...

the same response each time. In such cases the associations soon become fixed, and the response certa ...

years, and having a whole series of supposedly forgotten incidents or events connected with our former assoc ...

among the wheat, and will persist along with it until the end. In his boyhood these images were given ...

the least in their story. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Shakespeare, and many other writers have sei ...

gravity of the offense in tearing the leaves out of books, but if its hands are sharply spatted whenever they tear ...

separate sections or divisions of a subject, accepting each as a more or less complete unit, wit ...

Bad, inside, slow, short, little, soft, black, dark, sad, true, dislike, poor, well, sorry, thick, full, ...

CHAPTER XI MEMORY Every hour of our lives we call upon memory to supply us with some fact or detail ...

of these things at all, yet the truth remains as before: for the particular mind which remembers these things, ...

(1) Like marble to receive and like marble to retain. (2) Like wax to receive and like wax to retain. (3) Like ...

Retention.—Retention, as we have already seen, resides primarily in the brain. It is accomplished through ...

central dates and events to which they naturally attach. Geographical names, places or other information shoul ...

images or of ideas of your past. Images Vary as to Type.—We do not all remember what we call the sa ...

this law in mental terms we may say: The more often a fact is recalled in consciousness ...

reasonable length. The method of committing by wholes instead of parts not only economizes time and effort in ...

Let us next inquire what are the qualities which enter into what we call a good memory. The merchant ...

relations between separate facts upon which judgment and reasoning depend. It is likewise a common sourc ...

things with which we work daily, and in which we are interested, will be often thought of together, and ...