The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-02-03

service 60 the in which is situated and to which
II owes its support It should be able show how the
theoretical work Of the laboratory be applied to
the bCuering Of human conditions,
The agricultural and the engineering experiment sta.
lions at the university have been attempting give the
practical men of the state information in regard to the
best means OF preventing wastes and of obtaining the
greatest efficiency in the various fields Of their endeayor
similar attempt Is being made by the department Of
psychology Of the university show to the schoolmen
of the state how they time and how they can
regulate the environment Of the school the
greatest results with the least possible expenditure Of
energy
All knowledge is based fundamentally upon memory
and II is quite obvious that If the economical meth
DDS of learning discovered and applied tremendous
In the schoOlroom will be saved II striking
fact that students who the university do
not know how to properly momorze their material They
lose very large amount of time that might be saved
greatly to their advantage II they had the simple knowl
edge Of how to go about their work before them What
is true OF the university student is undoubtedly true
n greater degree OF the pupils in the public
schools II is clear that II the teachers knew what
the best method by which the pupil could mcmor2c
certain material and could train that pupil in such meth
DDS Of memory highly beneficial results would be
plishcd.
Working along this line. years ago the depart
mcnt of psychology at Illinois instituted series Of
experiments To determine far possible the exact
facts concerning what is technically know idea
tona types Of school children md the relation Of these
types the mcmuri2inE of different kinds OF material
sort OF mental imagery in which a person thinks for
example If a child recalls in Imagination bird he may
DO by having mental picture Of the bird rs a Wis
blc object he may recall the bird in terms OF the
song that It sings. II is further possible that he may
not in thinking of the bird, mentally recall IT,
but that he may merely the word bird written
hear It spoken. attempt to pronounce IL himself
II he actually the bird in his minds eye he Is said
to have concrete visual Imagery II he hears the song
that It sings mentally he Is said have concrete audi
tory imagery. If he the bird but the word he
is said to have verbal visionary imagery and II instead
Of seeing the word hearing 1T he simply the men.
tai imagery Of pronouncng the word he is said have
veTbalmoor 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
his to employ verbal imagery, in which latter
he does recall the object ALL but in which
he recalls the printed symbol for that object either In
visual, auditory motor II is 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. he may think of the starting signal or finally
he may think OF the muscular sensations which come 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
of the game in which he has taken part does
the plays spectator does from the grand
which he makes in executing them.