Memory and the Learning ProcessWarwick & York, Incorporated, 1917 - 179 Seiten |
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amount retained aphasia asso associations auditory auditory imagery Average Lower Half Average Upper Half Barnard College better Cent chapter Column considered consistently consonant correct correlation digits Ebbinghaus economical economy in learning example experimental psychology experiments fact factor form of imagery given greater group of subjects Henmon ideas individual interval length of material less logical memory ment mental method of scoring mind minutes mnemo-technician Modal Age motor NET GUN nonsense syllables number of repetitions once-per-day original learning passage poetry position practically preceding presentation problem Pyle question quick learners quickness of learning rank recall receives a score Relation of Length relation of quickness relative relearning remember results obtained reten Saved sensation sense series of syllables set of nonsense slow learner stanzas TABLE taken for learning tion total recall various words
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Seite 59 - He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain ; For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain. "And well...
Seite 173 - I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined.
Seite 173 - I was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention. Inclination was sometimes too strong for Reason. I concluded at length, that the mere speculative Conviction that it was our Interest to be compleatly virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping, and that the contrary Habits must be broken and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any Dependance on a steady uniform Rectitude of Conduct.
Seite 172 - Then Kim heard him snuff thrice, and dozed off, still laughing. The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together. Kim sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have it — bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of bullocks and creaking of wheels, lighting of fires and cooking of food, and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The morning mist swept off in a...
Seite 173 - Time is nothing but the form of the internal sense, that is, of our intuition of ourselves, and of our internal state. Time cannot be a determination peculiar to external phenomena. It refers neither to their shape, nor their position, etc., it only determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And exactly because this internal intuition supplies no shape, we try to make good this deficiency by means of analogies, and represent to ourselves the succession of time by a line progressing...
Seite 136 - Taking all three methods into consideration, we are entitled to say that with material that is logical in character, those who learn quickly remember the longest.
Seite 136 - With digits, however, ^we find the conditions', sTrfaTlis" method 3 is concerned, reversed, for here it is the quick learners who seem to forget the most. One might make the inference that those who learn slowly remember long, if the material used is such as involves motor associations, but that they forget quickly if the material is logical in character.
Seite 80 - that, while the impression made by nonsense syllables is so evanescent that a series .once perfectly learned is forgotten after an interval of twenty minutes, a residuum of some sort persists for a long time, so that even after a month the same series can be relearned in four-fifths of the time originally required.
Seite 71 - ... individual, in memorizing a poem of twenty stanzas, the highest retentiveness was obtained by distributing the readings as follows : two hours, eight hours, one day, two days, four days, eight days, sixteen days, thirty-two days, etc. The practical bearing of the results obtained on education in general is that when associations have once been formed, they should be recalled before an interval so long has elapsed that the original associations have lost their color and cannot be recalled in the...
Seite 152 - The students who stand highest in their various studies and who prove upon examination to be "the most intelligent" have, as a rule, the best memories. They not only learn more quickly, but they retain better.
