River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-02-03

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