Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![* 610. Show how memory ‘degenerates’ into habit or attitude. (Ju.) 611. Explain: ‘‘The reproduction [in memory] is exceedingly in- complete, and is attended to not as a repetition but as a symbol of a total experience.’’ (T. O.) * 612. How are memory-types related to ideational types? To types of attention ? * 613. Illustrate the conversion of memories from one modality to another. * 614. Discuss the tendency of verbal imagery to supplant visual or other ‘direct ’ imagery in adults. Why does this take place? 615, Can we assert that any single experience is absolutely and irre- vocably forgotten? Give examples of seemingly impossible recall. (Cf. W. James, Psychology, vol. i., p. 681.) Interpret the statement: ‘‘ In one sense, it is probable that no item of our lives is ever literally and entirely forgotten.’’ _(An.) 616. Any one who takes an advanced course of study for purposes of general culture finds that a few years later an enormous number of details once known can no longer be recalled. Was the acquisition of these de- tails so much time wasted? Why not? 617. ‘‘ When memory begins to decay under the advance of age, there is a remarkable uniformity in the order in which certain kinds of knowledge disappear.’’ (An.) What is this order? 618. ‘‘ One mathematician who could repeat in order as high as fifty- two figures, could not repeat more than eight or nine letters given orally as were the figures.’”’ (K.) What important fact concerning the nature of memory does this illustrate ? 619. Is unusually high retentive capacity always associated with a high degree of general intelligence? If not, why not? 620. Give examples of errors of omission, transposition, insertion, (interpolation), and substitution in recall.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31367124_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
