The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-02-10

life This is great advantage in abstract thinking II
49, however ustnct hindrance in appreciation of cul
ture and art If we wish to train our children to think
accurately and abstractly We must train them as the
schools evidently are training them In the direc
ton OF verbal imagery II, however we wish to de-
velop artists poets of letters inventors and those
with technical skill in the various professions we must
to 1t that this imagery is not lost for n
this loss takes place 1t will waste and
disaster for many
The experiments further showed that those children
who thought in visual terms best able to mem.
orize material with visual content and that those who
thought in auditory terms were best able to
learn material with auditory content This
Of far the application results to
school work is concerned that the material which
child learns must be in way adapted his idea
tonal type. If the best results to be accomplished
This perhaps is not so vital fact with the average
child who has many ways It may be- in which he
imagine his experience but there always every
schoolroom numbers of exceptional children who
very slow to get on in certain fields and who neverhe
less far from being mental detectives. To take
concrete illustration there children who have great
difficulty in learning to read and yet who often
bright in other school subjects 1t is probable
children have not developed the type of verbavisual
imagery. The printed word fails to carry its proper
significance. Such child, obviously, must be treated
differently from the average Individual In the first
place, he may be helped in his reading by being
structed to spell and pronounce words. The method
of showing him words and having him grasp them
visual signs will be hopeless method Of procedure in
his Further, the child may be aided by sys
tematc attempt to strengthen his verbavisua imagery
There is ample evidence that children be trained
in any type of imagery and 1t Is the business
ton to that those who are defective in essential
type are trained to overcome this defect
We cannot think for moment of demanding the
sort of thing from the child whose eyesght poor
that demand from the child of normal visual acuity
1t is just foolish to the child who is defective
in certain deationa type to do the work of a normal
child 1t is to expect the child who is defective in his
visual sensiby to accomplish the results under
the conditions that the child of normal sensbility
accomplshes.
Another important problem which has been under
taken by the psychological laboratory the university
is discover the most advantageous conditions, besides
those relating the ideaonal type under which
the outset of such investigation the psychologist is
confronted with the difficulty of selecting the sort Of
material for memorzing which will be sufficiently uni
form to be tried many children and the child
at various times It is quite evident that II the
ordinary materials of the schoolroom such the child
has had in his reading. geography and history room,
that this material will not be OF the uniformity desired
1t to avoid this difficulty that the psychologist Eb
blnghaus. nearly 25 years ago tried memory expert
that u.s. certain syabes which could pronounced and
which yet had Significance sylabes, for example,
like necdoz-hux. Here have relatively uniform
material that has. for the most mart little sgnih-
Using this kind of material several thousand school