The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-19
DR.. LINDLEY ON MEMORY.
The First Rule For rs Improvement is
"Pay Attention"

DR.. Lindley continued his talk on
memory, after short discussion of
Mondays lecture, and said, in sub
stance: The law of habit obtains in
another sort of memory an acquired
tendency obtained by constant re-
calling of association. Prof. James says
a man of encyclopedia memory may
have developed from a man of system
attic memory by study. Thought may
overcome any initial weakness of re-
tentiYeness
These men who have no retentive
memory, have systematic memory.
Men of desulatory memory are always
interesting, but are liable to retain the
superficial things, but men of the other
kind are likely to go deeper into facts
by their systematic weaving together.
Recall is determined by the vividness
OF the original image and by frequency
of recall
There are some relations of memory
to movement which are important To
know how to do a thing is to do it, The
relation of language to memory is being
exploited in language teaching. Gouin
was an exponent of this He found that
in doing thing child used the word
for it. The whole scheme lay in the
using of muscles in helping the MEM
DRY. Hence the use of note taking.
We have not memory, but memories.
Each one of the senses has it's own
memory. Gouin was first in discussing
this. He brought out the extreme diff
terences in individual memories. He
found that many people were eye
minded. Some painters are able to paint
accurate pictures from memory. There
are the auditory minds. Many people
are able to recognize their friends Ivy
their voices. Great musicians are ear
minded, and can play from memory.
The touch-muscle-m minded people are
not so common The blind and deaf
mutes are touch-minded
Most OF us, however, are of the mixed
type, in differing degrees There are
verbal types. We can express almost
any thought in words. There is the Wis
ual verbal mindedness. Some orators
mentally read their manuscripts while
speaking. There are auditory verbal
Kindness. People remember words BY
the sound. Rhetoric teaches Of
euphhony and for us to recognize
rythm in words we must have verbal
ear-mindness. There are people who
think by the feel of words in their
throat. Most of lis are verbal-mlnded
In this way. If one opens the mouth
and tries to think of the word mother
llc VIII luu lHdl MS lips attempt TO
form the word. There has been a good
deal Of talk about the danger Of eye
mindedness in the schools by the teach
ing from books. 1t is well to appeal to
all the types of memory in teaching the
child.
1t is mooted question whether mem
DRY can be improved. Dr. johnson said
that the true art of memory was in at
tention. The methods of memory train
ing have been Of great interest. The
Greeks very often used some sorts of
mnemonics by which to remember
Some had regular memory houses diyid-
ed into numerous rooms, in which the
ideas were placed 1t is Of advantage
when one wants to remember arbitrary
things All the methods are difficult
in thinking of suitable words, and most
methods are now being based on true
psychologist foundations. Pick said we
should think Of as few things at once
as possible and think Of them in as
natural way as possible.
To improve memory first pay atten-
ton. You learn quicker under pres
sure. Practice recall. Get a.