The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-04

service the in which 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
tons at the university have been attempting to give the
practical of the state information in regard to the
best preventing wastes and of obtaining the
greatest efficiency in the various fields of their endeavor
similar attempt is being made by the department OF
psychology of the university to show to the schoomen
of the state how they save time and how they can
regulate the environment of the school to get the
greatest with the possible expenditure of
energy.
All knowledge is based fundamentally upon memory
and it is quite obvious that If the most economical meth
DDS of learning discovered and applied tremendous
in the schooroom will be saved. 1t is striking
fact students who the university do
know how to properly memorze their material They
lose very large amount of time that might be saved
greatly their advantage if they had the simple knowl
edge of how go about their work before them. What
is of the university student is undoubtedly true
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
certain train that pupil in meth
DDS of memory highly beneficial results would be
plished.
Working along this line years ago the depart
ment of psychology at Illinois instituted series Of
experiments to determine possible the exact
concerning what is technically the idea
onal types Of school children and the relation of these
types to the memorizng Of different kinds of material
By the ideatonal type the psychologist understands the
sort of mental imagery in which person thinks-for
example, If child recalls In imagination bird he
do by having mental picture of the bird Wis
IDLE object he may recall the bird in terms of the
song that it sings 1t is further possible that he may
not in thinking of the bird, it mentally recall it's
song but that he merely the word bird written
hear it spoken, attempt to it himself
If he actually the bird in his minds he is said
to have concrete visual imagery. he hears the song
that sings mentally he is said to have concrete audi
tory imagery. he not the bird but the word he
is said to have verbalvsonary imagery, and instead
of seeing the word hearing it he simply has the
tai imagery of pronouncng the word, he said
verbal-motor imagery
1t is then possible for the person in his ordinary
thinking to employ either concrete imagery in which he
recalls the actual object presented through of
his to employ verbal imagery in which latter
he does not recall the object ALL but in which
he recalls the printed symbol for object either
visual auditory motor terms 1t is possible also to
have not only concrete visual and auditory but
to have concrete motor imagery we'll person. for
example, in mentally recalling foot race, may think
of the he ready for the starting sig
nal he may think of the starting signal or finally
he may think of the muscular sensations which
running the In this latter he would think of
the in terms Of concrete motor imagery.
Probably the football player in recalling expert
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.