St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-02-19

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