The Elbert County tribune., 1910-02-04

to the state in which is situated and to which
it support. should be able to show how the
theoretical work of the laboratory can be applied
the betterng Of human conditions.
The agricultural and the engineering experiment
tons at the university have been attempting give
practical men OF the state information in regard to the
best Of preventing wastes and of obtaining the
greatest efficiency in the various fields of their
similar attempt is being made by the department of
psychology of the university show the schoomen
of the state how they time and how they
regulate the school as to get the
greatest results with the least possible expenditure
energy
All knowledge s based fundamentally upon memory
and it is quite obvious that the economical meth
DDS of learning discovered and applied tremendous
wastes in the schooroom will be 1t striking
fact that most students who the university
not know how to properly memorize their material They
lose very large amount Of time that might be saved
greatly their advantage II they simple
edge OF how go their work before them What
is the university student undoubtedly true
a greater degree the pupils in the public
schools is clear that the teachers knew what was
the best method by which the pupil could memorize
certain material could pupil meth
ods Of highly beneficial results would
pIished.
Working along this line. some years ago the depart
ment of psychology at Illinois instituted of
experiments to determine far possible
facts concerning what technically as the idea
tona Of school children relation OF these
to the memorzing of kinds of material
By the deationa type psychologist understands the
sort of mental imagery In which person thinks-for
example. If child recalls in Imagination bird he may
do by having picture the bird as Wis
song that 1t sings 1t is further possible that he may
not. in thinking of the bird mentally or recall it's
but that he merely the word bird written
hear 1t spoken attempt pronounce It himself
II he actually the bird in his eye he is said
to have concrete visual imagery If hears the song
that 1t sings mentally he is said audi
tory imagery. II he the but the word he
is said to have verbal visionary imagery instead
of seeing the word hearing he simply the men
tai imagery Of pronouncing the word he have
verbal-motor imagery
1t Is then possible for the person in his ordinary
thinking employ either concrete imagery in which he
recalls the actual object presented through some
his senses or to employ verbal imagery which latter
case he does not recall the object but In which
he recalls the printed symbol for object either In
visual auditory motor terms. 1t possible also to
have not only concrete visual auditory imagery but
to have concrete motor imagery well. person.
example in mentally recalling foot race, may think
of the he ready the starting sig
nal or he think of the starting signal or finally
he think OF the muscular which come in
running the In this latter would think Of
the runner In terms of concrete motor Imagery.
Probably the football player recalling the expert
ences Of the game in which he has taken part does
the plays the spectator from the grand
stand. but recalls them in terms OF the movements
which he makes in executing them